Software Engineer

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company building foundation AI models and end-to-end products for enterprises.

• Evolve and scale backend systems powering Model Vault, including authentication, authorization, deployment management, billing, metering, and customer lifecycle
• Lead major architectural initiatives across identity, payments, usage systems, and platform scalability
• Build reliable control-plane services for provisioning, configuring, scaling, and operating model deployments across clouds and hardware
• Design APIs and distributed systems with strong guarantees around correctness, consistency, isolation, failure recovery, idempotency, and observability
• Build security and privacy into platform architecture: tenant isolation, least-privilege access, auditability, secrets management, encryption, confidential computing
• Drive projects end-to-end from architecture and threat modeling through implementation, rollout, and production operations

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, networking, operating systems, and security
• Experience building production systems in Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar
• Experience designing and operating production systems at significant scale
• Understanding of concurrency, consistency, caching, queues, rate limiting, backpressure, failure domains, idempotency, graceful degradation
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity, cryptography, secrets, tenant isolation
• Experience with instrumentation, capacity planning, migrations, backwards compatibility, incident response, safe rollouts

• Remote-friendly with offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, Seoul
• Weekly lunch stipend, full health and dental benefits, mental health budget
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
• 100% parental leave top-up up to 6 months
• Education & learning stipend, 6 weeks paid vacation
• $500 home office stipend, co-working benefit for remote employees