Cognition
Security Engineer
San Francisco. Posted 3 months ago
The role
Security Engineers will secure the agent execution surface and own product and infrastructure security. You will build security tooling and lead incident response for AI-native developer tools.
What you will do
- Design and harden sandboxing, isolation, and runtime controls for Devin.
- Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management.
- Create internal systems for secrets management, identity and access, dependency security, and detection.
- Build the detection pipeline and run incident response.
- Partner with go-to-market and legal teams to support compliance and customer trust initiatives.
Required qualifications
- Hands-on experience across product security, infrastructure security, and detection and response.
- Proficiency in Python, Rust, and Go.
- Comfort owning complex systems codebases.
- Practical experience securing Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and multi-tenant compute environments.
- Hands-on experience hardening complex, modern web applications.
- Experience leading incidents end to end.
- BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.
Nice to have
- Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company.
Benefits
- Fully paid Medical, Dental, Vision for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with company match
- Private chef
- Cozy slippers
- Endless snacks
About the company
Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.