Cortex

• Manage, administer, and evolve database environments in production and non-production using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of databases • Plan and execute backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery strategies • Perform tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting of databases and data integrations • Respond to incidents, conduct RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and implement preventive measures • Create and maintain runbooks and documentation of standards • Ensure efficient, secure, and resilient connectivity between applications and databases on AWS • Plan, administer, and optimize cost for AWS network resources (VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateway, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, VPN, etc.) • Actively participate in diagnosing latency, packet loss, timeouts, and connection failures • Work with IAM and access policies for resources • Define and monitor SLIs and SLOs for databases and set standards for monitoring and observability • Work with tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch • Support reliability-oriented observability strategies

🧠 About Cortex Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. With centralized visibility, clear ownership, automated Scorecards, and golden paths, we help engineering organizations operate as one. Our customers – from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises – create a culture of engineering excellence, reducing incidents by 30% and improving MTTR by 50%, all while making it easier for developers to focus on building. 📍Location We’re fully remote and welcome candidates from anywhere in the US! We have all-company offsites a few times a year where we fly the whole team out to meet in person, build stronger relationships, kick off important projects, and have fun! 🤝 The Team We are a mighty group of ~80 passionate individuals excited about building a product that developers love. We recently raised $60M in Series C Funding this year led by Scale Ventures (with participation from Sequoia, IVP, and others) to build the Future of Developer Experience. You can read more about it here. 💼 Role Summary We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end design process for critical product surfaces within Cortex. You will be responsible for defining the user experience, conducting research, and translating complex engineering problems into intuitive and delightful interfaces. This is a key role where you will drive the design vision and execution for major features. 🛠️ Responsibilities - Drive the design vision: Lead and execute the design strategy for major product initiatives, setting a new standard for design and user experience at Cortex. You are relentless about crafting a delightful, industry-leading experience. - Elevate product quality and UX flow: Proactively identify and resolve complex user experience issues, focusing on streamlining core workflows and improving overall product usability and polish. - Design system ownership (Figma focus): Fully own the design system and component library within Figma, including specification, documentation, and governance, ensuring designers and engineers have scalable, reusable patterns. You’ll work closely with other designers consuming components and engineering teams implementing them. - Strategic Prototyping and Testing: Design, plan, and execute high-fidelity prototypes and user testing to validate concepts and inform design direction across the product management and engineering teams. - End-to-End Feature Delivery: Own the design process from concept development, through wireframing, high-fidelity mockups, and final handoff. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure features meet a high bar for user experience. - Maintain exceptional craft: Maintain an unwavering attention to detail to ensure product consistency, completeness, and a professional, polished user experience. ✔️ Qualifications - 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer working on complex B2B or enterprise SaaS products. Experience with developer tools is a plus. Startup experience is highly desirable. - Proven experience leading end-to-end design projects with significant business impact. - Expert proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, and user research methodologies. - Demonstrated experience owning and scaling a comprehensive design system and component library (in design tools like Figma). - You can point to a portfolio of work that clearly demonstrates your ability to solve challenging user problems and execute with exceptional craft and attention to detail. - Passionate about creating beautiful, useful, and usable interfaces guided by user feedback, while maintaining the ability to make strong decisions in ambiguous situations. 💰 Compensation - Starting Salary Range: $190 - 220k - Competitive Equity Package *Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for equity and benefits. 🌴 Perks & Benefits - National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!) - Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours - 401k plan - Gender-neutral parental leave - $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend - $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything) - Pet Insurance Cortex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cortex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email people@cortex.io

• Develop and maintain high-performance, resilient crawlers/bots for large-scale data extraction. • Design and implement complex data pipelines using Databricks (Spark) for batch and streaming processing. • Ensure the health and reliability of data flows using advanced orchestration tools. • Manage and optimize resources within the AWS ecosystem to ensure scalability and cost efficiency. • Implement error-handling techniques, block-workarounds (proxies, captchas) and data quality validation for collected data.

🧠 About Cortex Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. With centralized visibility, clear ownership, automated Scorecards, and golden paths, we help engineering organizations operate as one. Our customers – from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises – create a culture of engineering excellence, reducing incidents by 30% and improving MTTR by 50%, all while making it easier for developers to focus on building. 📍Location We’re fully remote and welcome candidates from across the US. We get together a few times a year for company offsites where we build stronger relationships, kick off important work, and genuinely enjoy spending time together. 🤝 The Team Our team is ~80 people building something developers actually want to use. We recently raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Ventures (alongside Sequoia and IVP). We're focused on making engineering teams more effective. You can read more about our latest funding round here. 🖥️ Job Summary We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our team and help us build a new category of developer tooling. You will solve deeply technical problems and dive into scalability issues. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the core backend systems that power Cortex while working closely with the product and support engineering teams. ⚙️ Responsibilities - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements - Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones - Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems - Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basi - Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members - Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices - Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences - Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes ✔️Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience - 5+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language - Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms - Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc. - Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages - Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices - Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills - Strong communication and collaboration skills - Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers 💰 Compensation - Starting Salary Range: $165,000 and $195,000 - Competitive Equity Package *Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for equity and benefits. 🌴 Perks & Benefits - National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!) - Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours - 401k plan - Gender-neutral parental leave - $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend - $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything) - Pet Insurance Cortex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cortex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email people@cortex.io

• Design, build and maintain robust, scalable data infrastructures on AWS. • Implement and manage big data solutions using Apache Spark. • Develop and optimize data pipelines, ETLs and complex data workflows. • Write complex SQL queries for data analysis and insight generation. • Use Databricks as a central platform for data analytics. • Ensure data quality and compliance with data security and privacy standards. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs.

• Proactively monitor and manage client health and the relevance of projects to the client’s business • Understand the product and ecosystem and identify alternatives to improve project relevance and adoption • Study the industry and the specific characteristics of each client’s business • Act as the client’s voice to other teams within the company, sharing pain points and seeking solutions internally • Ensure delivery and compliance with deadlines agreed with the client