Senior Software Engineer (Authenticator team)

About Cognite and Cogniters

Cognite is a global leader in industrial software with our Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, at the core. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. 

The Product team is the team responsible for developing Cognite Data Fusion as a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems at Cognite. Cognite’s Cognite Data Fusion makes the operational data available at scale and adds value to the data through data processing. This enables asset-intensive industries to make data-driven decisions. Our platform is built on various technologies, each good at solving various challenges.

To build the best possible product, we believe in autonomous teams with developers, product managers and technical program managers working closely together. You will work with a team of highly skilled engineers and a critical Cognite service centered on authentication and authorization. We use the latest technologies and work closely with end users to iterate quickly towards better product experiences.

This position is a hybrid role working from the Oslo office. 

The Turbofish Team represents the first line of defense in maintaining a secure ecosystem for privileged customer data. The work we do is critical for the success of our customers, and the company at large, and exists in the dynamic intersection of security, infrastructure, and feature development. The developers on our team have daily opportunities to work on creative technical challenges and to engage with some of Cognite’s most impactful and interesting business challenges. 

• Join a Cognite development team as an engineer, owning development and support for authentication, authorization and IAM services for Cognite Data Fusion
• Develop enhancement requests that address needs around identity/access management and auditing
• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Be actively involved in setting product and technical direction
• Monitoring and alerting to track the performance and health of authorization services in all clusters
• Maintain up-to-date documentation, including FAQs, troubleshooting guides and best practices documents.
• Manage CVEs, defects and technical debt

• Experience with and passion for authorization, authentication and security
• You have at least 5 years of software engineering experience in one or more programming languages such as Rust, Kotlin, C# or Python.
• You can prioritize your tasks and distribute your time and resources most efficiently to optimize for impact.
• You write well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code and actively keep the quality and health of the codebase in check.
• Experience with large Cloud deployments on any of AWS, GCP, or Azure; build, test, deploy, and monitor software in a multi-cloud Kubernetes environment.
• You have the ability to learn other coding languages and use the language best fit for purpose.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; ability to track down information in logs, traces, and metrics and take appropriate action based on findings
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Competitive salary and benefits include a pension plan, insurance, parental benefits, and more.
• Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Gain perks like a paid mobile telephone subscription and broadband connection.
• Get access to extended private health services with Aker Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by our chefs who specialise in options for both vegetarians and non-vegetarian, salads and hot soups every day
• Stay fueled between meals with snacks and drinks on the house. 
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot 🐶!

Apply today!

If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team. Please do not hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition team with any questions - Amy Ruban at amy.ruban@cognite.com.

We encourage you to follow us on Cognite LinkedIn; we post all our openings there.

Be aware that this position is also published in Austin, USA

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion™, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion. 

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.