Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer, Cohere
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
Job no longer available
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience supporting Opensearch or Elasticsearch clusters in a production environment
- You have production deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
- You have solved problems while on-call for a production system
- You have hands-on coding experience developing services and automated tests
- You have experience scaling and debugging cloud-based infrastructure through GCP, AWS, or Azure
- You see mentorship, knowledge transfer, and review as essential prerequisites for a healthy team
What the job involves
- As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer (a Member of Technical Staff role on our Search team) you will work directly with Cohere’s Search Tools and Search Modeling teams to deploy and support the search platform, and solutions built on top it
- This will include assessing service stability, managing releases, and exploring ways to increase resiliency
- You will also be involved in sizing cluster hardware, optimizing the stack, and integrating with model serving backends
- In this role, you’ll be working daily with cutting edge search models, and providing the best experience for internal and external customers
- This work has extremely high impact, and will contribute directly to the success of Cohere
- Please Note: This role requires participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation, where you are compensated for time spent on-call
- Support Search Services for internal and external use cases, enabling stable and successful search experiences for our customers
- Automate observability and resilience. Enable all developers to troubleshoot and resolve problems relating to search
- Take steps required to ensure we hit defined SLOs, including participation in an on-call rotation
- Build strong relationships with internal developers and influence the Search and Infrastructure team’s roadmap based on their feedback
- Develop our team through knowledge sharing and an active review process
Our take
Many businesses are now faced with the challenge of adopting advanced AI safely and securely. While AI tools like ChatGPT are making headlines, companies (especially those in regulated industries such as banking, telecoms, or government services) worry about privacy, compliance, and control over their sensitive data. Cohere addresses these concerns by offering AI solutions that can be trained on a company's internal data and, importantly, run on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external cloud providers. And in a world where data breaches and regulatory scrutiny are constant threats, this focus on trust and security is key.
In a competitive landscape, dominated by giants like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk;'s xAI, Cohere is setting itself apart by targeting businesses exclusively. Its approach has earned it contracts with some big names, like Royal Bank of Canada, Fujitsu, LG, Oracle, and Dell. By focusing on reliability and enterprise adoption rather than viral consumer appeal, Cohere has carved out a strong niche for itself.
This isn't going unnoticed either, as the company recently raised $500M, boosting its valuation to $6.8B, and brought on board top talent from MEta and Uber to strengthen its leadership team. Alongside this, its doubled its annual recurring reveneu to $100M in 2025 and is aiming to hit $200M by year-end. With its North platform for AI agents and a lean cost structure compared with larger rivals, Cohere is very much ready for more growth.
Steph
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Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Aug 2025
$500m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company 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
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(Co-Founder & CEO)Aidan received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2024 and has served as Cohere's CEO since co-founding the company in 2019.
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