Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Company: Cohere

Location: New York, New York, United States {{REMOTE}}

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-05-24

About this role

We’re building the data infrastructure behind some of the most demanding AI training workloads in the world, and we want sharp, curious people to help us do it
In this role, you’ll build and maintain the high-performance data layer our Modeling teams rely on for training and evaluation jobs
As a Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure, you will:
Work directly on petabyte-scale storage infrastructure, and the networking and performance challenges that come with it
Collaborate daily with researchers and engineers who are some of the best in the world at what they do

### Benefits

Six weeks’ paid vacation
Equity / stock options
RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions
Coverage for 100% of your insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel
Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services
Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy
Financial support for egg freezing and IVF in Canada and the UK
A monthly fitness and wellness allowance
Globally dispersed company that supports a remote work culture
A $2,000 annual education benefit for professional development
A weekly stipend for meals when working remotely and catered lunch when working from one of our global offices
A monthly arts and culture allowance
A monthly quality time allowance- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Spark, or Flink
Kubernetes experience, especially on the storage side (Persistent Volumes, CSI drivers, etc.)
Genuine excitement about AI. You follow the research, have opinions, and enjoy being in the weeds
[Nice-to-have] Familiarity with modern analytics tooling such as BigQuery, Airflow, or dbt
4+ years of experience working on data storage infrastructure
Comfort operating at the edge of what’s known, with a desire to build something genuinely new rather than optimize what already exists
Strong command of Python
The ability to transform unstruc...