The Impact you bring to Cognite

• Architecting and building our core authentication and authorization services, applying modern security principles to protect all customer data.
• Designing and scaling resilient gRPC/HTTP APIs and microservices on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, low latency, and ease of integration for other internal teams.
• Driving backend innovation by writing clean, maintainable code and refining our service architecture to support rapid product growth.
• Leading development initiatives including threat modeling, performance tuning, and reliability engineering to harden our systems against evolving security challenges.
• Mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to shape our technical roadmap and foster a culture of secure-by-default engineering.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating distributed backend systems in a modern, typed language.
• Strong proficiency in Rust or Kotlin. We value deep expertise in either language and a pragmatic approach to choosing the right tool for the job.
• Deep expertise in modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g., OIDC, OAuth2, RBAC/ABAC) and their practical application in building secure services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, particularly Kubernetes and cloud platforms like GCP, AWS or Azure.

Preferred Experience

• A proven track record of owning services in production, from initial design and development to deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• A collaborative and pragmatic mindset, with good communication skills and a desire to mentor others.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!

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.