Devops Engineer, Federal

Cognition
Washington
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Government & Public AdministrationExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Leadership","Adaptability"]

Foundational federal DevOps engineer responsible for architecting, owning, and deploying end-to-end, mission-critical federal deployments. Works with customer engineering and GTM teams to define scope, ensure security/compliance, and shape the product’s deployability and operability across environments. You will contribute to core code, translate field learnings into product direction, and help scale the federal engineering organization.

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Cognition
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Devops Engineer, Federal

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Job Summary

Foundational federal DevOps engineer responsible for architecting, owning, and deploying end-to-end, mission-critical federal deployments. Works with customer engineering and GTM teams to define scope, ensure security/compliance, and shape the product’s deployability and operability across environments. You will contribute to core code, translate field learnings into product direction, and help scale the federal engineering organization.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Government & Public Administration

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, own, and maintain the end-to-end technical lifecycle of complex, mission-critical federal 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; serve as the trusted expert on deployment, security, and platform architecture.
  • •Contribute directly to the core product codebase to improve deployability, operability, and reliability across environments.
  • •Translate field learnings and customer pain points into actionable product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation.

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • •Experience working within the government or a government-focused company.
  • •Direct experience implementing compliance and security controls for federal or highly regulated environments.
  • •Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfortable navigating unfamiliar codebases.
  • •Strong engineering foundation with proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex distributed systems.
Experience:2+ yearsFederalGovernmentEnterprise deployments
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationLeadershipAdaptability
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptAPIsCloudDeploymentSecurity

Company Brief

Cognition
Builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer and AI-native developer tools (Windsurf, DeepWiki) to automate software engineering workflows for enterprise customers.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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