Software Engineer (DevEx)

About Cognigy

Cognigy is transforming the customer service industry with the most advanced AI Agent platform for enterprise contact centers. Its award-winning solution, Cognigy.AI, empowers enterprises to deliver instant, hyper-personalized, multilingual service on any channel. By integrating Generative and Conversational AI to create Agentic AI, Cognigy delivers AI Agents that redefine customer experiences, drive satisfaction, and support contact center employees in real-time.

Our skilled #CognigyCrew are the people behind our leading technology and we are now looking for more talented people to join our global team.

Why you’ll love working at Cognigy - Our promise to you

We empower our people to be successful as part of a diverse, passionate and respectful team who are proud to be enabling customer and employee service that is loved by everyone.

We do this by challenging each other to succeed and being enabled to do our best work. Encouraging and supporting growth is at the heart of our success, founded on a culture of mutual respect and trust – always! It’s no wonder that the values that inspire and drive our #CognigyCrew are our 4Ts - Team, Trust, Transparency, Technology.

Your new role – Software Engineer (DevEx)

Location : On-site in Düsseldorf or remote in Germany

As a DevEx Engineer at Cognigy, you’ll be a key enabler for our Engineering organization, delivering streamlined, secure, and efficient development experiences. You’ll work across our CI / CD infrastructure, developer tools, and internal platforms to automate and optimize engineering workflows. This role is pivotal to ensuring scalable, compliant, and frictionless development.

You will collaborate with Engineering, SRE, Security, and QA teams, helping us improve product quality, operational excellence, and delivery speed. From container orchestration to internal CLI tools, you’ll be at the heart of what powers our teams to build next-gen AI solutions.

Your responsibilities will include

• Empower Developers – Build internal tooling and workflows that boost productivity and satisfaction.
• CI / CD Optimization – Enhance performance across pipelines (e.g., caching, parallelization, resource usage).
• Security & Compliance – Implement automated solutions (e.g., Vanta, Snyk) to enforce secure software delivery practices.
• Dev Environment Standardization – Ensure scalable and reproducible environments using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Monitoring & Observability – Improve logging, alerting, and insight generation using Grafana, Kibana, and Sentry.
• Infrastructure Ownership – Design secure, scalable automation solutions and lead platform-level architectural improvements.
• Collaboration & Mentorship – Partner with SRE / Core teams and support junior engineers with knowledge sharing.
• Operational Excellence – Proactively propose and lead cross-team improvements to drive engineering success.
• Developer Lifecycle Management – Manage onboarding / offboarding tooling and access provisioning securely.
• Customer Engagement – Participate in architecture / security discussions with customers when needed.

Growth Potential

At Cognigy we are committed to your professional growth. This role offers significant opportunities for career development, including access to ongoing training, and involvement in high-impact projects allowing you to showcase and advance your unique skills and experience.

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Benefits

Life at Cognigy - What we offer you

We are an ambitious and international tech company with a great culture, and we make sure that everyone feels welcome. Our excellent benefits make us a fantastic place to work - these include

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement - Cognigy does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.