Senior Software Engineer, Cobalt AI
Integrations Lead
$160-200k
Smart security & assistance robots
Be an early applicant
Smart security & assistance robots
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To elevate the work that people do by training machines to do boring tasks better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent on integrations, platform work, or API development
- Strong experience building asynchronous, event-driven services in any language (e.g. async runtimes, concurrency, backpressure, non-blocking I/O)
- Working proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with third-party APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures across diverse vendors
- Experience building resilient integration pipelines, including retry logic, backoff strategies, health monitoring, and graceful degradation
- Systematic debugging skills, tracing problems across your platform, a third-party API, and a customer's on-premise hardware, with comfort working through inconsistent vendor documentation, legacy protocols, and customer-specific configurations
- A track record of taking ownership of a service or system and improving its reliability over time
- Comfort instrumenting and operating services with metrics and tracing (Datadog or equivalent)
- Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments like ECS
- Experience with or strong interest in Rust
- Deep async Python experience (asyncio, aiohttp, or similar)
- Kubernetes or EKS experience
- Physical security systems (LenelS2, Genetec, Brivo, C
- CURE, Netbox, Acre) or other enterprise ACS/VMS platforms
- Streaming and eventing protocols such as SignalR, MQTT, and WebSocket
- Django and webhook-handler experience
- Experience with GraphQL APIs for internal use
- Enterprise multi-tenant SaaS experience, and SOC 2 or GDPR-aware development
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer: Integrations Lead to own the integrations that make autonomous security monitoring work
- You will manage the connections between Cobalt’s platform and our customers' enterprise security ecosystems, including access control, alarms, video, and ticketing tools, spanning everything from legacy on-premise hardware to modern cloud APIs
- This is a foundational ownership role with clear potential to shape the future of our integration strategy, including a planned migration of most services from async Python to Rust
- Full ownership of the integration service lifecycle, including reliability, roadmap execution, and long-term technical vision
- Architect and maintain our asynchronous integration service, currently Python, with a planned migration to Rust for most applications, connecting to client systems (ACS, VMS, and alarms) via REST, MQTT, and SignalR
- Expand integration capabilities through new connectors and webhook handlers designed for large-scale enterprise event ingestion
- Develop outbound layers to orchestrate automated responses, such as lockdowns and security escalations, within customer ecosystems
- Monitor system health using alerting and retry logic to ensure resilient performance and graceful degradation of dependencies
- Construct test harnesses and mock environments to debug complex issues across third-party APIs and legacy on-premise hardware
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering and internal stakeholders to scope technical requirements and drive new integrations
- Act as a primary technical responder for integration-specific incidents, performing deep-dive debugging across vendor platforms
- Lead strategic migrations to Kubernetes and identify opportunities to integrate new communication and notification technologies
Application process
- Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, or until August 31, 2026
Our take
As robotics transitions from a dream of the future to the reality of now, companies are looking to employ machines to protect their offices, warehouses, and people. Cobalt AI supplies security robots that use advanced sensor tech and computing to patrol premises and provide assistance, much like a human security guard.
Cobalt's simple, accessible robots come with an array of features, from 2-way video and audio chat, to smoke, carbon monoxide, and ozone sensors. Autonomous vehicle technology means they are able to move and dock alone, with 360-degree 4K cameras and day/night vision making them acutely aware of its surroundings.
With uses spanning reporting anomalies, badge checks, evacuation crowd control, and many more, it is no surprise that Cobalt AI has secured a range of big-name clientele. This includes DoorDash, fintech startup Ally Financial, and mobility solutions company Woven Planet.
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2018
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company HQ
East Industrial, Fremont, CA
Leadership
Ken Wolff
(CEO)Former COO of the company. Previously founded AffirmX and was Managing Partner at Achievence.
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