Distributed Filesystems Software Engineer | Santa Clara, CA Office
Listed on 2026-03-11
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Staff Distributed File systems Software Engineer
Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location.
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery ’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.
Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.
Seeking Experience in C++, Distributed File Systems
We are seeking motivated, hardworking Software Engineers eager to enhance Cohesity’s products by developing features, tools, and scripts that simplify the process of selling, deploying, and maintaining them. You are not only a Software Engineer who crafts and implements features, but you should also have a curiosity about diagnosing problems in large bodies of sophisticated code, understand scalability and performance, and work on fixes with rapid turnaround time and high quality.
This position will focus on working closely with our Product and Sustenance Engineering team, as well as with Product Managers, Customer Support, System Engineers, and customers.
- Design, develop, and maintain innovative products for our on-prem as well as SaaS offerings, including distributed file systems, archival products, and cloud services.
- Efficiently collaborate with product management, other cross-functional leads, and teams on both technical and business strategies to improve and build the future product roadmap for Cohesity’s infinitely scalable platform.
- Implement product features for on-prem and cloud platforms.
- Drive accountability for test-driven development, delivery of high-quality features and resilient enterprise-class solutions.
- Lead a culture of team ownership and direct individual and team accountability to improve how they work and achieve results continuously.
- Participate in Agile development processes.
- Min 10+ years of back-end software development experience
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Development experience with large-scale, highly available distributed systems is a plus
- Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing
- Expert-level programming and debugging skills in C++
- Strong knowledge of system performance and scaling
- Previous experience in distributed file systems.
- Proven skills to solve complex problems.
- Experience with debugging and diagnosing production software.
- Ability to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment
- Possess excellent communication and sharp analytical abilities
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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants.
Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.
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