Senior Software Engineer, Secure Agents

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified
• Brief Description: Cohere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on security to join their North team and build and secure North’s architecture. This role involves developing security features, autonomous agents, and ensuring the resilience of the AI workspace platform.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of previous experience in software engineering with a strong focus on developing user-facing security features.
• Skills:
  • Strong development skills, particularly with Python in production.
  • Solid knowledge of security principles (session management, multi-factor authentication, secure coding practices).
  • Comfortable working across the stack.
  • Ability to read and understand, and even fix issues outside the main codebase.
  • Flexible and constructive problem-solving approach.
  • Ability to execute in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship security features for North, the AI workspace platform.
• Develop autonomous agents that interact with sensitive enterprise data.
• Write and ship minimal code that runs in low-resource environments with stringent deployment mechanisms.
• Pull in new tools to enhance North’s security capabilities.
• Perform application security testing for code to test resilience against real-world threats.
• Potentially re-invent security solutions when standard libraries or tooling are insufficient.

Company Information

• Mission: To scale intelligence to serve humanity.
• Focus: Training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises.
• Values: Obsession over building, working hard, moving fast, customer-centricity, diverse perspectives.
• Team: Researchers, engineers, designers.

Application Instructions

• Encourage applicants to apply even if they don’t perfectly align with all requirements.
• Cohere values diversity and strives to create an inclusive work environment.