Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Security Platform

Cognite; Oslo fylke; Hybrid; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DEI-focused culture

Modern, fun working environment

Flat structure with direct access to决?

Opportunity to learn from top talent

On-site amenities and health benefits

Global exposure to Cognite’s projects

Job summary

Cognite is hiring an engineer to join our security- and identity-focused team. You will own major parts of our identity platform from design to production, and help set standards for security, scalability, and reliability across cloud deployments.

You will build in Rust, Kotlin, and TypeScript, collaborating with engineering, product, and customer success, while mentoring peers and driving operational excellence. This is a opportunities to influence global industrial platforms at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production experience in Rust or Kotlin, ideally from a SaaS product environment.
• A track record of owning a business-critical service in production, from design through delivery and operation.
• Deep interest or hands-on expertise in authorization, authentication, and security, OAuth2/OIDC, tokens, and multi-tenancy.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Experienced using AI coding assistants and agents in day-to-day engineering, with sound judgement about when to rely on their output and when to verify it.
• Skilled at resolving complex issues from logs, traces, and metrics, prioritizing for impact, and communicating clearly across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own major parts of our identity platform, from design through to production.
• Lead design reviews and set the technical direction, testing practices, and operational standards for your domain.
• Translate ambiguous 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 applications in TypeScript.
• Shape our product's direction by working closely with teams across engineering, product, and customer success.
• Mentor engineers and raise the standard of code review, reliability, and operational excellence across the team.

Skills

Rust

Kotlin

OAuth2/OIDC

Multi-tenancy

Cloud deployments

Kubernetes

AI coding assistants

Logs/metrics debugging

Security design

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

TypeScript

Job description

Cognite is hiring an engineer to join our security- and identity-focused team. You will own major parts of our identity platform from design to production, and help set standards for security, scalability, and reliability across cloud deployments.

You will build in Rust, Kotlin, and TypeScript, collaborating with engineering, product, and customer success, while mentoring peers and driving operational excellence. This is a opportunities to influence global industrial platforms at scale.