Senior Software Engineer - Kotlin
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer at Cognite, you will develop and maintain next-generation authentication and IAM features within the SaaS platform. You will deliver secure and reliable solutions for identity, access management, and auditing at scale. This role involves shaping the product direction by working closely with teams across engineering, product, and customer success. You will continuously monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and security of our authorization services. The role requires proactively fixing vulnerabilities, streamlining code, and reducing technical debt. The position is a hybrid role working from the Oslo office. As the first line of defense for securing privileged customer data, this work is crucial for customer and company success.
Must have:
- 5+ years of backend experience in Kotlin or Java.
- Deep interest or hands-on expertise in authorization, authentication, and security.
- Strong coding fundamentals – clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes.
- Proven ability to prioritize work for maximum impact.
Good to have:
- Skilled at identifying and resolving issues using logs, traces, and metrics.
- Great communication and teamwork skills, with bonus points for React experience.
Perks:
- Join an organization of 70 different nationalities with DEI in focus.
- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture.
- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers.
- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects.
- Gain perks like a paid mobile telephone subscription and broadband connection.
- Get access to extended private health services with Aker Care.
- Subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by our chefs.
- Stay fueled between meals with snacks and drinks on the house.
- Cognite exclusive coffee bar.
- Broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
- A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot!
10 skills required
Job Details
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 & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where data meets ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
Learn more about Cognite here
Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
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.
We believe in autonomous teams with developers, product managers and technical program managers working closely together. You'll work with skilled engineers on a critical authentication and authorization service, using the latest technologies and iterating quickly with end users for better product experiences.
This position is a hybrid role working from the Oslo office.
As the first line of defense for securing privileged customer data, our work is crucial for customer and company success. Operating at the intersection of security, infrastructure, and feature development, our developers tackle creative technical challenges daily and engage with Cognite's most impactful business problems.
As an engineer at Cognite you will:
- Develop and maintain next-generation authentication and IAM features within our SaaS platform
- Deliver secure, reliable solutions for identity, access management, and auditing at scale
- Shape our product’s direction by working closely with teams across engineering, product, and customer success
- Continuously monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and security of our authorization services
- Proactively fix vulnerabilities, streamline code, and reduce technical debt
- Keep our documentation clear, current, and genuinely helpful
We believe most of these should match you and your experience
- 5+ years of backend experience in Kotlin or Java, ideally from a SaaS product environment
- Deep interest or hands-on expertise in authorization, authentication, and security
- Strong coding fundamentals – clean, efficient, and maintainable code – and the flexibility to learn new languages
- Hands-on experience with large-scale cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes
- Proven ability to prioritize work for maximum impact
- Skilled at identifying and resolving issues using logs, traces, and metrics
- Great communication and teamwork skills, with bonus points for React experience
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 anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* 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 🐶!
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainabilityfor clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single 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 🥇
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 -
We encourage you to follow us on Cognite LinkedIn; we post all our openings there.
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