Senior Software Engineer - Time Series Database
Cognite
Software Engineering
Oslo, Norway
Posted on Wednesday, September 6, 2023
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. In the realm of industrial digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. As an integral part of the esteemed Aker family, Cognite brings forth a legacy of innovation and excellence. Excitingly, we are set to extend our footprint to the vibrant landscapes of India, which opens the door for you to be part of the expansion from the beginning. Join us in this venture where data meets ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
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.
At Cognite we want to make data do more. We want to help our customers to realize huge value from their data. Our teams are working on building the next generation industrial data ecosystem, including a data platform and applications. This is your chance to make a real impact on bringing industry to a sustainable future.
Time Series data forms the backbone of the industrial data ecosystem and is a core component of Cognite Data Fusion. At Cognite, we've engineered a cutting-edge Time Series database designed to seamlessly scale to tens of trillions data points while delivering consistent low-latency analytical queries. This innovation empowers our users with real-time insights and robust performance, even at massive scale.
About the team:
Our mission is Make it simple and enjoyable for users to ingest and interact with their time series data, no matter the scale. We work closely with both internal and external users, iterating toward better product experiences that drive value and innovation.
Our backend services are primarily written in Kotlin, utilizing coroutines for asynchronous, non-blocking operations, and Ktor as a lightweight server framework. We ensure the correctness and quality of our code through mutation and property testing.
Our Time Series database is powered by FoundationDB, a distributed key-value store supporting ACID transactions. We manage and automate our FoundationDB clusters using the FoundationDB Kubernetes operator, which is written in Go and to which we also contribute.
All our services run on Kubernetes and are deployed across multiple cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and OpenShift. CI/CD is handled by a combination of Jenkins and Spinnaker. Infrastructure is managed as code with Terraform and Atlantis, while Kubernetes manifests are generated with Jsonnet. Our services are monitored with Prometheus and Grafana.
We are looking for Software Engineers to help us:
- Bring our Time Series offering to the next level
- Scale our Time Series database by orders of magnitude
- Enhance and enable powerful analytical capabilities
- Innovate and develop cutting-edge features and solutions
- Optimize the performance, efficiency, and reliability of our solutions
- Manage, maintain, and automate our FoundationDB clusters
We believe most of these should match you and your experience:
- You have 5+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
- Proficient in one or more statically typed programming languages, with Kotlin or Go experience being a plus
- Skilled in implementing, debugging, or designing distributed and scalable systems
- Interested in or experienced with distributed databases
- Familiar with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, or container technologies
- Strong Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to effectively analyze logs, traces, and metrics to identify issues and take appropriate corrective actions
- Open Source Community Engagement: Comfortable contributing to and collaborating with the Open Source community, including requesting features, fixing issues, and sharing knowledge
- Excellent Communication and Collaboration: Strong ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively across teams, fostering a positive and productive working environment
- Highly motivated with a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement
We believe these traits will help you be successful:
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 🥇 and Cognite Recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year
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.
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.