Curious about what it’s like to work at Cognyte?
At Cognyte, you’ll collaborate with expert colleagues around the globe to solve problems most people will never even know exist!
You’ll be part of building unique solutions shaped by real investigative methodologies, enabling our customers to identify, investigate, visualize and prevent criminal, terror and security threats worldwide.
These solutions are used by law enforcement, national security, and national and military intelligence agencies in almost 100 countries to turn massive, diverse data into clear, actionable intelligence for a safer world.
Our product:
LUMINAR is an all-in-one external threat intelligence solution for CTI, DRP, and EASM. It combines an AI-powered platform that automates large-scale threat discovery, correlation, and prioritization with an embedded proactive expert human layer that delivers tailored threat intelligence, aligns findings to business risk and priorities, guides response, and supports remediation.
We are looking for an exceptional and passionate Experienced Backend Engineer to join our BE development team in Sofia, Bulgaria.
As a Cognyter you will:
- Design, develop, and deploy microservices for handling and analyzing massive volumes of data over a distributed environment, including data pipelines and services that support analytics and AI‑driven capabilities, with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
- Work using Scrum as part of a collaborative and friendly team
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, and Software Engineers across multiple countries to define, design, and solve complex technical challenges, including challenges related to data quality, enrichment, and intelligent automation
- Take part in technical decisions and strategy, influencing the long‑term product and technology vision, including introducing and evolving AI‑based backend capabilities where relevant
- Contribute to the design, architecture, and continuous refactoring of the platform, with an emphasis on scalable, cloud‑native, and AI‑ready architecture
- Have a strong passion for Java, you will be an open-minded, tech-savvy developer who is enthusiastic about learning and working with a variety of technologies including modern data platforms and applied AI technologies
For that mission you’ll need:
- At least 5 years’ hands-on experience in Java (Spring Framework an advantage)
- Hands-on experience building microservices in cloud (preferably GCP/AWS/Azure) environments using cloud native technologies (such as: Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems using technologies such as Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, or similar
- Experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL/MySQL)
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- Strong understanding of testing methodologies with a focus on ensuring code quality, reliability, and scalability in production environments
- Familiarity with AI/ML workloads execution (an advantage)
Skills Required
- At least 5 years' hands-on experience in Java
- Hands-on experience building microservices in cloud environments
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience with Elasticsearch
Cognyte Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognyte and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognyte.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, mental‑health support, and FSA options. Coverage is generally portrayed as solid within a well‑rounded package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes generous PTO, paid holidays, floating holidays, wellness days, and paid volunteer time. These elements indicate a comprehensive time‑off offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Work setup includes flexible schedules and hybrid/remote options highlighted across public materials. Flexibility is emphasized alongside the core benefits offering.
Cognyte Insights
What We Do
Cognyte is a leading software-driven technology company focused on solutions for data processing and investigative analytics that allow customers to generate Actionable Intelligence for a Safer World™. We empower law enforcement, national security, national and military intelligence agencies, and other organizations to navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape with greater speed, accuracy, and precision.
Why Work With Us
Driven by curiosity and a purpose with real-world impact, we place innovation at the core as we tackle complex, fascinating challenges where bold questions forge real breakthroughs.
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