Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI)

Location: Hybrid in London, New York, Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal

Salary: USA—California, New York, and Washington: base salary $215K–$300K plus equity; USA—other states: base salary $185K–$275K plus equity; Canada: base salary CA$275K–CA$360K plus equity.

Company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business applications.

What you will do

• Build automation pipelines for comprehensive testing across environments, feature flags, and realistic customer data profiles.
• Create intelligent testing agents that simulate user behavior across configuration combinations.
• Develop GitHub workflows and actions for testing, deployment, and validation.
• Manage Helm charts, ArgoCD workflows, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code templates.
• Build benchmarking frameworks, monitor coverage and reliability metrics, and detect regressions.
• Establish testing practices across engineering teams and resolve complex testing infrastructure issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on automation and testing infrastructure.
• Expert proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with GitHub workflows and actions, CI/CD pipelines, and testing methodologies.
• Containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with benchmarking, performance testing, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Background in developer tools or platform engineering.
• Ability to design complex automation systems, with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Production experience with LLMs.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, including Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools.
• Experience with container orchestration, monitoring, observability, test framework development, Helm charts, and ArgoCD.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools and frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work model with offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.
• Health and dental benefits, mental health budget, RRSP matching, 401(k), and pension scheme.
• Six weeks of paid vacation, parental leave top-up for up to six months, and annual enrichment benefits.
• Education and learning stipend, $500 home office stipend, coworking benefit, and travel budget for other offices.
• Lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent, office lunch programs, and an annual company offsite.