Principal Engineer

Cognee is building thememory engine + data plane for AI agentsto plan, reason, and act. Our open-sourcePython SDK is in production at 70+ companies, hitGitHub Trending, and runs550 000 times a month. We’ve won early customers (top 10 Pharma etc) and just raised a largeSeed.

We’re hiring aPrincipal Engineertoown the Cognee SDK as a product surface area— setting technical direction, raising engineering quality, and scaling adoption.

You'll be coding in Python and Rust.

What you’ll own

• SDK architecture, API design, and roadmap (Python now, future SDKs later)
• Release engineering: versioning, compatibility, CI/CD, testing, benchmarks
• Performance, reliability, observability, and production readiness
• Developer experience: docs, examples, reference implementations
• Open-source stewardship: contribution workflows, PR reviews, community support
• Cross-team leadership: shaping core platform contracts through the SDK

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• Principal-level ownership of ahigh-adoption SDK / developer platform / core library
• Deep Python skills (packaging, typing, testing, performance, clean APIs)
• Experience with production systems
• Strong taste for DX and high standards for stability and maintainability
• Bonus: open-source leadership, agent/memory/retrieval systems experience
• Hands-on experience with LLMs

The SDK is how the world experiences Cognee — you’ll define it.

Benefits

Up to 150 000 EUR + Equity

Company sponsored meals

Trips to San Francisco

Fetch breaks with the office dog