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# Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Knowledge Graph at Cognite - AI for Industry

- **Company:** Cognite - AI for Industry
- **Location:** Oslo, Norway
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/cognite/jobs/5020904101

## Job description

What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here.

Our [Moonshot](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/newsroom/cognite-s-industrial-ai-momentum-soars-driving-ecosystem-impact-at-global-conference) is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

## How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

As the first line of defense for securing privileged customer data, our work is crucial to customer and company success. We operate where security, infrastructure, and product meet: designing authorization, identity, and audit solutions that are fast, correct, and observable. As a Senior or Principal Engineer, you will take ownership of security-critical backend systems, directly impacting how our platform is secured and used.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

- Architecting and building our core authentication and authorization services, applying modern security principles to protect all customer data.
- Designing and scaling resilient gRPC/HTTP APIs and microservices on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, low latency, and ease of integration for other internal teams.
- Driving backend innovation by writing clean, maintainable code and refining our service architecture to support rapid product growth.
- Leading development initiatives including threat modeling, performance tuning, and reliability engineering to harden our systems against evolving security challenges.
- Mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to shape our technical roadmap and foster a culture of secure-by-default engineering.

Required Qualifications

- Significant experience building and operating distributed backend systems in a modern, typed language.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin. We value deep expertise in either language and a pragmatic approach to choosing the right tool for the job.
- Deep expertise in modern authentication and authorization concepts (e.g., OIDC, OAuth2, RBAC/ABAC) and their practical application in building secure services.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, Elasticsearch and cloud platforms like GCP, AWS or Azure is vital.

## Preferred Experience

- A proven track record of owning services in production, from initial design and development to deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- A collaborative and pragmatic mindset, with good communication skills and a desire to mentor others.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

- Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @[cognitedata](https://www.instagram.com/cognitedata/) 📷 to know more
- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
- Join our [HUB](https://hub.cognite.com/) 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
- Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
- Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
- Our own [Cognite exclusive coffee bar](https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGdwKGK7j7/) ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
- We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
- A pet lover? Get the chance to meet [Spot](https://www.instagram.com/p/ClljJ29gdk7/) at the Robot Garden!

Learn more about us

- [Impact 2025](https://www.cognite.com/en/resources/blog/key-highlights-from-impact-2025)
- [Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/newsroom/cognite-s-industrial-ai-momentum-soars-driving-ecosystem-impact-at-global-conference)
- We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

## Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

## About Cognite - AI for Industry

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cognite delivers industrial AI software that unifies siloed operational data to help energy, process manufacturing, and other industrial companies improve production efficiency and scale AI solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Aker ASA, total funding of $338.9M)
- **Headquarters**: Tempe, Arizona, United States (global HQ; also Lysaker, Norway)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (co-founded by a team with industrial and tech backgrounds)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Industrial AI, Industrial DataOps, Energy (oil & gas, renewables), Process Manufacturing, Power & Utilities
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise industrial companies (energy, manufacturing, chemicals, etc.)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Power a high-tech, sustainable, and profitable industrial future” — enabling industrial teams to move faster, work safer, and achieve more with AI.

## Products & Services
- **Cognite Data Fusion®**: Open Industrial DataOps platform that contextualizes operational, engineering, and IT data into a real-time Industrial Knowledge Graph, making data accessible for AI and analytics. (SaaS/platform)
- **Cognite Atlas AI™**: Low-code industrial AI agent workbench for building and deploying agentic AI to automate complex operational tasks. (AI agent platform)
- **Cognite Flows™**: Tool for building and scaling production-ready industrial workflows 100x faster. (Workflow automation)
- **Composable reference applications**: Pre-built solutions for production optimization, smart maintenance, workforce digitalization, and sustainability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $338.9M (5 rounds); Annual revenue SEK 790.7M (approx. $75M based on current exchange rates, but exact USD not given)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Aker ASA; partners include Microsoft, Aker BP, Sopra Steria, Omny, Aize, and others. Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Industrial DataOps Platforms.
- **Growth Signals**: 663 employees (+20.9% YoY); 102 active job postings (+67.2% YoY); LinkedIn followers 103,713 (+65.8% yearly); committed to delivering $100B in customer value by 2035; customers report 30-80% reduction in maintenance time and 4-month deployment cycles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industrial domain expertise**: Deep specialization in heavy industry (energy, process manufacturing) with a platform built for complex OT/IT data integration.
- **Open ecosystem**: Works with any cloud, any data source, any LLM, enabling flexible partnerships and off-the-shelf integrations.
- **Low-code AI agents**: Cognite Atlas AI allows domain experts to build AI agents without deep coding, speeding adoption.
- **Proven ROI**: Customers report 10x productivity improvements, rapid scaling (e.g., from pilot to 9 facilities in months), and significant downtime reduction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling industrial AI**: Accelerate time-to-value with pre-built solutions, AI agents, and use-case best practices.
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence in Americas (Tempe, Austin, Houston), Europe (Oslo), Asia (Tokyo, Bengaluru).
- **Customer value commitment**: Ambitious goal of $100B in customer value by 2035.
- **Partner ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with cloud providers, system integrators, and industrial software vendors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of Relentless (innovation, learning from setbacks), Ownership (shared responsibility, inclusivity), and Impact (result-oriented, adding value to team and customers). Described as “smart, passionate builders, and problem solvers.”
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid model with offices in Tempe, Austin, Houston, Oslo, Tokyo, Bengaluru. Some roles listed as “USA (remote)” indicating flexibility for certain positions.
- **Diversity**: Employees from 60+ countries; global team of engineers, product managers, domain experts.
- **Perks & Growth**: Opportunity to work on “biggest impact on our planet” — industrial AI at scale; strong investment in R&D and career development; fast-growing company with 100+ open roles.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI, data engineering, machine learning, and full-stack development; roles like Senior AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Applied AI Engineer.

## Sources
1. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en)
2. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/about-us-cognite)
3. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognite)

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