HQ: Relocated global headquarters to Tempe, Arizona (announced December 3, 2025; previously based in Oslo, Norway).

• Manage a team of 5-10 engineers, developing services and applications for Cognite Data Fusion - a robust, state-of-the-art SaaS for industrial data.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team consisting of designers, product managers and program managers to ensure the team builds the right product, that is of excellent quality and is delivered on time.
• Coaching all of your engineers with variable backgrounds, seniority and understanding of the domain they are solving to have high impact in the team.
• Working with your team to understand the users' problems and domain.
• Unblocking the team and collaborating with stakeholders outside of the team to resolve and mitigate problems.
• Being actively involved in setting product and technical direction.
• You do not shy away from writing code yourself, or help your team with code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Dogfooding our products to try to put yourself in our users’ shoes.

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer who excels at building high-performance distributed systems and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll be working on cutting-edge data infrastructure challenges that directly impact how Fortune 500 industrial companies manage their most critical operational data.

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

• Build high-performance data pipelines using Spark, Flink, and Kafka to process terabyte-scale industrial datasets.
• Develop low-latency APIs and services supporting thousands of concurrent users with sub-second response times.
• Optimize time-series, sensor, and operational data storage and retrieval for massive scale.
• Engineer distributed processing solutions, including real-time streaming that handles millions of events per second.
• Design and evolve cost-efficient data lake architectures (S3/GCS) using modern formats like Parquet/ORC.
• Optimize OLAP query performance across systems such as ClickHouse, Pinot, or Druid.
• Build fault-tolerant, highly-available systems with circuit breakers, retries, and distributed tracing.
• Drive technical innovation through research, prototyping, and contributions to open-source.
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams to translate complex industrial data problems into scalable, production-grade solutions.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• You have a background in a product company
• You have 2+ years of experience with people management
• You have 8+ years of backend development experience, with proficiency in one or more of these technologies - Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala, C#.
• You have a good understanding of end-to-end system design and architecture.
• The added experience of having worked as a senior engineer or a tech lead is an advantage
• You have a genuine and keen interest in building the competency of engineers in a company and can do so emphatically
• You have a collaborative mindset, and have a drive to always look at the greater good
• You have experience with building applications that process high volumes of data
• You have experience managing end-to-end feature delivery
• Have the motivation to work in a high-paced environment
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Equal Opportunity Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.