About Cogent

Cogent Labs is devoted to providing innovative solutions to real-world problems in order to improve people's quality of work and life through intelligent automation. Founded in 2014, we believe achieving this goal requires a deep understanding of customers' needs and practices in order to build products that can leverage the power of custom AI models through a carefully crafted UI and UX.

Our main product is SmartRead, a generic and versatile solution for automating digital and analog document processing for a wide range of businesses. Headquartered in Tokyo, we are a diverse company with international members from 20 different countries.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic engineer to help build and enhance our Cloud and On-premises platforms which deliver our AI-powered products to customers.

Successful candidates will join a highly skilled team, with the opportunity to design, build, test, and deploy high-quality solutions at any and all levels of the system, as well as contribute to the processes and practices that make for a fun and effective engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Effectively blend software engineering and operational expertise to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud and on-premises product platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across code, database, and infrastructure, ensuring seamless platform operation and improving product quality.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers, product managers, and quality assurance to resolve pain-points, automate toil, and improve overall developer experience.
• Balance innovation and stability through thoughtful use of SLOs and error budgets, mitigating risk effectively while embracing and facilitating change.
• Contribute to process improvements and drive strategic initiatives to help all engineers in the company be more effective, knowledgeable, and happier.

Salary Information

Competitive salary based on skills and experience (Estimated salary: $80,000 - $120,000 per year)

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in roles such as Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Backend Developer, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to debug and discuss complex issues
• Application development experience in NodeJS, Golang, or Python
• Experience with, and interest in, at least some of the following:
  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
  • CI/CD with tools like Github Actions and ArgoCD
  • Monitoring and alerting, using prometheus/cortex or similar tools
  • Software and infrastructure security practices
  • Troubleshooting in linux (e.g. disk, networking, logs)