Build Engineer at Cognits

I’m helping Cognits find a top candidate to join their team full-time for the role of Build Engineer.

You'll optimize build pipelines and CI/CD systems to enable efficient, secure software delivery across teams.

Compensation:
USD 4.5K - 5.5K/month.

Location:
Remote (for Colombia residents).

Mission of Cognits:
"Cognits turns your vision into reality with seamless collaboration, thoughtful design, and top-tier development—all from our trusted nearshore team. We build beautiful, functional products—on time, every time."

What makes you a strong candidate:
• You are proficient in building systems, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), version control (Git), and scripting.
• English - Conversational.

Responsibilities and more:
The role focuses on maintaining and improving the software build process across teams. This includes optimizing build pipelines, managing CI/CD systems, supporting version control, and integrating development tools that enable efficient and secure software delivery. The position works closely with development, DevOps, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Required Skills
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Groovy).
• Experience with build systems (e.g., Make, CMake, Bazel, Gradle).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Proficient in version control systems, especially Git.
• Familiarity with both Linux and Windows build environments.

Preferred Skills
• Experience building and customizing compiler toolchains.
• Familiarity with security tools such as Clang-Tidy, AddressSanitizer, fuzzers.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Exposure to build system data visualization (e.g., Graphviz, Prometheus, Grafana).