Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer – Data at Scale & Security

Cogent-Security; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogent is hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer on our Core Platform team to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale. You will standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption across Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK, while building storage observability dashboards.

This hands-on role requires deep data infrastructure experience, with strong Python and Golang skills, and IaC using Terraform.

Qualifications

• Experience with data stores: Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka/AWS MSK, and Postgres.
• Knowledge of table formats and lakehouse patterns, including Iceberg.
• Strong coding in Python and Golang.
• Infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform.
• 3–6 years at a successful tech company (Senior, Staff+).

Responsibilities

• Standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora / RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK.
• Build storage observability dashboards for capacity, performance, replication, lag, and cost.
• Create a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows.

Skills

Aurora RDS

Clickhouse

Kafka / AWS MSK

Postgres

Python

Golang

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cogent is hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer on our Core Platform team to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale. You will standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption across Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK, while building storage observability dashboards.

This hands-on role requires deep data infrastructure experience, with strong Python and Golang skills, and IaC using Terraform.