Senior Backend Engineer: Secure Auth & Microservices

Cognite; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health services with Cognite C

On-site gym access

DEI-focused workplace

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Job summary

Cognite is a leader in industrial digitalization and data solutions. We seek a Principal Engineer to own security-critical backend systems, focusing on authentication, authorization, and secure data access. You will design scalable APIs, mentor engineers, and drive secure-by-default practices across teams.

The role emphasizes modern security principles, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration across product and infrastructure to enable growth and reliability.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating distributed backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and practical use of OIDC/OAuth2
• Hands-on with cloud-native tech and modern authentication methods.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build authentication/authorization services.
• Design and scale gRPC/HTTP APIs and microservices on Kubernetes.
• Drive backend innovation with clean, maintainable code.
• Lead threat modeling, performance tuning, and reliability engineering.
• Mentor engineers and shape the technical roadmap.

Skills

Kotlin

Backend systems

Security

Tools

Elasticsearch

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognite is a leader in industrial digitalization and data solutions. We seek a Principal Engineer to own security-critical backend systems, focusing on authentication, authorization, and secure data access. You will design scalable APIs, mentor engineers, and drive secure-by-default practices across teams.

The role emphasizes modern security principles, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration across product and infrastructure to enable growth and reliability.