Senior Identity & Security Engineer (Rust/Kotlin)

Cognite - AI for Industry; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health services (Cognite Care)

Canteen lunch provided

On-site gym access

Coffee bar and snacks

DEI focus and diverse team

Flat structure and direct access to决决决

Pet-friendly office

Job summary

Cognite is hiring engineers to strengthen our identity platform and security capabilities. You will own critical services from design to production, lead technical reviews, and translate complex requirements into robust, scalable solutions across identity, access management, and auditing at scale.

You’ll build end-to-end services in Rust and Kotlin, with TypeScript applications, and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer success teams to drive product direction and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5yrs+ production experience in Rust or Kotlin, ideally from a SaaS product environment, with ability to learn the other.
• Own a business-critical service in production from design through operation.
• Deep interest or hands-on in authorization, authentication, and security, OAuth2/OIDC, tokens, multi-tenancy.

Responsibilities

• Own major parts of the identity platform from design to production.
• Lead design reviews and set technical direction, testing practices, and operational standards.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure designs for identity, access management, and auditing at scale.
• Build and operate services end-to-end in Rust and Kotlin, and apps in TypeScript.
• Shape product direction by collaborating with engineering, product, and customer success."
• Mentor engineers and raise the standard of code review, reliability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Rust

Kotlin

OAuth2/OIDC

Cloud deployments

Kubernetes

AI coding assistants

Security & access control

Logging & metrics

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

TypeScript

Rust toolchain

Job description

Cognite is hiring engineers to strengthen our identity platform and security capabilities. You will own critical services from design to production, lead technical reviews, and translate complex requirements into robust, scalable solutions across identity, access management, and auditing at scale.

You’ll build end-to-end services in Rust and Kotlin, with TypeScript applications, and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer success teams to drive product direction and reliability.