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Devops Engineer, Federal

Cognition· Customer Engineering
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Hybrid (Washington DC)Full-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Federal DevOps Engineers are full-stack deployment experts who own and maintain the technical lifecycle of our most important federal enterprise deployments. You’ll shape deployability and operability, work with customer engineering teams, and influence the Cognition platform’s evolution in real-world environments within the federal space.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, own, and maintain the end-to-end technical lifecycle of complex, mission-critical federal enterprise deployments and their environments.
  • Work directly with customer engineering and GTM teams to define deployment scope, ensuring compliance with security controls and federal regulations.
  • Provide technical depth on strategic deployments; serving as the trusted expert on deployment, security, and platform architecture.
  • Contribute directly to the core product codebase to improve deployability, operability, and reliability across a variety of environments.
  • Translate field learnings and customer pain points into actionable product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation.
  • Build product extensions, integrations, and automation using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives to unblock deployments.
  • Serve as the key technical and connective link between the Federal team and core infrastructure engineering teams.
  • Handle escalated technical issues and provide architectural judgment requiring deep debugging and systems analysis.

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex, distributed systems.
  • 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company.
  • Direct experience in implementing compliance and security controls required for federal or highly regulated environments.
  • Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases.
  • Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain.
  • Have operated cross-functionally—whether at a startup wearing multiple hats or by driving product/commercial thinking at a larger company.

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity. Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any. Cognition also considers applicants with criminal histories consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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An applied AI lab building the future of software engineering. We’re the makers of Devin, a collaborative AI teammate that helps ambitious engineering teams achieve more.

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