Security Engineer
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Cognition is an applied AI company that operates Devin, an autonomous software-engineering agent.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Cognition
Cognition builds AI agents and models for software engineering. Its flagship product, Devin, can plan, write, test, and ship code in a customer’s existing codebase and tools.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and harden sandboxing, isolation, and runtime controls for untrusted code execution. You will lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, vulnerability management, incident response, and security detection. You will also build tools for secrets, identity, access, dependencies, compliance, and customer trust.
Requirements
- Product security
- Infrastructure security
- Detection and response
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- Cloud security
- Kubernetes
- AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Multi-tenant compute environments
- Web security
- Threat modeling
- Incident response
- Experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company
- Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related technical degree from a highly selective program
Responsibilities
- Design and harden sandboxing, isolation, and runtime controls
- Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management
- Build tooling for secrets management, identity and access, dependency security, and detection
- Build detection pipelines and lead incident response
- Support compliance and customer trust initiatives
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) company match
- Private chef
- Cozy slippers
- Endless snacks
- Early-stage equity