Security Engineer at Cognition


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Cognition is Hiring

Job Info:
  • Company Cognition
  • Position Security Engineer
  • Location San Francisco
  • Source Empllo
  • Published April 30, 2026
  • Category Security
  • Type Full-Time


Job Description

📋 Description

  • Secure the agent execution surface: Harden sandboxing, isolation, and runtime controls for Devin.
  • Own product and infrastructure security: Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management across Devin, Windsurf, and the underlying infrastructure they run on.
  • Build security tooling engineers actually use: Create internal systems for secrets management, identity and access, dependency security, and detection that integrate naturally into how the team ships.
  • Lead incident response and detection: Build the detection pipeline, run incident response, and turn every event into systemic improvements.
  • Drive customer trust: Partner with go-to-market and legal teams to support compliance and customer trust initiatives. Build the controls that customers expect from a tool deeply embedded in their engineering workflow.

🎯 Requirements

  • Deep security engineering: Hands-on experience across product security, infrastructure security, and detection and response.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: Proficiency in Python, Rust, Go, and owning complex systems codebases.
  • Cloud security expertise: Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and multi-tenant compute environments.
  • Web security expertise: Hands-on experience hardening complex, modern web applications.
  • Threat modeling and adversarial thinking: You can look at a system and quickly identify how it breaks; you think like an attacker and design like a defender.
  • Incident response: Calm, methodical, and effective under pressure; experience leading incidents end to end and driving the fixes that follow.

🎁 Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision: Fully paid for you and your dependents.
  • 401(k): Company match included.
  • Perks: Private chef, cozy slippers, endless snacks, and more.

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