Senior Software Engineer (Foundation DB) | Database Reliability Engineer

A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities

• Join a Cognite development team as an engineer, owning the full cluster lifecycle of our FoundationDB clusters on both public clouds and private Kubernetes deployments.


• Establish and maintain robust reliability engineering to support these clusters, managing aspects like:
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana 
• Develop and maintain robust backup and restore processes 
• Scale clusters as needed to accommodate demands while optimizing resource utilization
• Upgrades -work closely with the Infrastructure team during Kubernetes upgrades, ensuring no downtime during the update process
• Monitoring and alerting to track the performance and health of FoundationDB clusters
• Maintain up-to-date documentation, including FAQs, troubleshooting guides and best practices documents.
• Capacity forecasting to ensure that FoundationDB can efficiently handle workload
• Manage CVEs for FoundationDB components.


• Actively engage with and contribute to the FDB Kubernetes Operator repository by submitting pull requests for bug fixes and improvements.
• Contribute to reducing cloud costs, increasing efficiency and reducing footprint.

We believe most of these should match you and your experience

• Passion for DevOps, Distributed Systems, or Kubernetes
• Broad experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and Infrastructure as code
• Experience with large Cloud deployments on any of AWS, GCP, or Azure; build, test, deploy, and monitor software in a multi-cloud Kubernetes environment.
• Familiar with C++, Golang or other programming languages, jsonnet knowledge, Kubernetes app developer experience, familiarity with operator patterns in Kubernetes
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; ability to track down information in logs, traces, and metrics and take appropriate action based on findings
• Solid understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Comfortable working with Open Source community - request features, fix issues
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills


Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• 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 a 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-vegetarians, 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 🐶!


Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the world's most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers and domain experts to make better decisions every day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently, Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇