Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer — Scale Data Ops

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

Job summary

Cogent is hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer for the Core Platform team to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale. You will build the backup, observability, and operations layer across relational, streaming, and analytical stores—making it agent-forward.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer with deep data infrastructure experience, ideally sharpened at a data-focused startup.

Qualifications

• Experience with data stores: Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka/AWS MSK, Postgres.
• Familiarity with lakehouse patterns, including Iceberg.
• Strong coding in Python and Golang.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.

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

Iceberg

Python

Golang

3-6 years experience

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cogent is hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer for the Core Platform team to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale. You will build the backup, observability, and operations layer across relational, streaming, and analytical stores—making it agent-forward.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer with deep data infrastructure experience, ideally sharpened at a data-focused startup.