# Security Engineer

Hiring organization: [Cognition AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cognition-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c696d4ae-794b-498b-a2ad-5ed9c196bb87

Listed on Cognition AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 260000 – 300000 USD per year

## Summary

This role secures AI-powered developer tools that execute untrusted code and handle sensitive credentials at scale. It suits security engineers who want hands-on work across product, infrastructure, and detection systems while helping define security practices for a new category of AI-native applications.

_Our summary, not Cognition AI's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Go, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Python, Rust, Threat Modeling

## Required

- Product security, infrastructure security, and detection/response experience
- Python, Rust, or Go proficiency and comfort with complex systems codebases
- Kubernetes and cloud platform security experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Web application security hardening experience
- Threat modeling and adversarial thinking skills
- Incident response leadership experience
- BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field from a selective program

## Nice to have

- Experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company
- Comfort with novel security challenges unique to autonomous agents and AI-native developer tools

Apply on Cognition AI's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/71165bb4-9bc8-49df-9eca-49c4232f72ff/application