Senior Software Engineer

About Cognite

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

About The Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 6–12 years of experience in distributed data systems, backend engineering, or platform engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or Python.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and data lake/object storage.
• Prior experience with large-scale data, OLAP systems, or industrial/IoT data is a plus.
• Contributions to open-source or experience in industrial data/AI platforms is an added advantage.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build world-class Industrial DataOps systems powering global energy, manufacturing, and industrial AI customers.
• A fast-growing, high-ownership environment in Cognite’s India R&D Center.
• Work on cutting-edge distributed systems, streaming architectures, AI-ready data platforms, and industrial-scale challenges.
• A culture that rewards innovation, autonomy, continuous learning, and open-source contribution.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits aligned with Cognite’s global standards.