Senior Software Engineer
Cognite
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Dec 5, 2025
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the 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 digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
About The Role
We're seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer who excels at building high-performance distributed systems and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll be working on cutting-edge data infrastructure challenges that directly impact how Fortune 500 industrial companies manage their most critical operational data.
How you'll create an imapct
- Build high-performance data pipelines using Spark, Flink, and Kafka to process terabyte-scale industrial datasets.
- Develop low-latency APIs and services supporting thousands of concurrent users with sub-second response times.
- Optimize time-series, sensor, and operational data storage and retrieval for massive scale.
- Engineer distributed processing solutions, including real-time streaming that handles millions of events per second.
- Design and evolve cost-efficient data lake architectures (S3/GCS) using modern formats like Parquet/ORC.
- Optimize OLAP query performance across systems such as ClickHouse, Pinot, or Druid.
- Build fault-tolerant, highly-available systems with circuit breakers, retries, and distributed tracing.
- Drive technical innovation through research, prototyping, and contributions to open-source.
- Collaborate with product and architecture teams to translate complex industrial data problems into scalable, production-grade solutions.
What you bring:
- Deep expertise in Spark internals, including Catalyst optimizer, partitioning, and performance tuning.
- Strong hands-on experience with Flink/Kafka for both streaming and batch workloads.
- Proven ability to scale systems to 10K+ QPS with strong foundations in JVM performance, GC tuning, and memory management.
- Experience building high-throughput REST/gRPC services and advanced caching with Redis/in-memory data structures.
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Solid architectural thinking with an ability to design distributed, secure, and resilient platforms.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across engineering, product, and platform teams.
- 6–12 years of experience in distributed data systems, backend engineering, or platform engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or Python.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and data lake/object storage.
- Prior experience with large-scale data, OLAP systems, or industrial/IoT data is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source or experience in industrial data/AI platforms is an added advantage.
Qualifications
Whar we offer:
- Opportunity to build world-class Industrial DataOps systems powering global energy, manufacturing, and industrial AI customers.
- A fast-growing, high-ownership environment in Cognite’s India R&D Center.
- Work on cutting-edge distributed systems, streaming architectures, AI-ready data platforms, and industrial-scale challenges.
- A culture that rewards innovation, autonomy, continuous learning, and open-source contribution.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits aligned with Cognite’s global standards.
Join the Global Cognite Community
Be part of a diverse, global team of 70+ nationalities, building technology that transforms how the world’s industries operate.
Work from our modern Bengaluru hub in a hybrid, high-trust environment with a flat structure and direct access to decision-makers.
At Cognite, you’ll learn fast, make an impact, and grow your career alongside exceptional talent.
Why Cognite
Recognized by CNBC and Frost & Sullivan as a global innovation leader, Cognite is driving the next wave of industrial AI and digital transformation.
Join us to shape the future of data and industry.
Apply today — and follow us on LinkedIn (@Cognite) to discover more opportunities.