Senior Software Engineer | Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office

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 opens in a new tab 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 at scale.
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Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

• Must currently reside within commute radius of Santa Clara, CA
• Willingness to work onsite at Santa Clara 2 days per week (Hybrid)
• Expertise coding in C++ (or Java or Go)
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems and system design
• Proficiency in file systems and/or storage protocols and concepts

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer to design, develop, and deliver next-generation, cloud-native SaaS products. This individual will play a pivotal role in building large-scale distributed data platforms and high-performance services that power our modern data ecosystem. The ideal candidate is passionate about designing for scale, reliability, and operational excellence in a multi-cloud environment.

• Build and deliver next-generation products designed to run efficiently as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on leading public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Architect and implement large-scale distributed data systems that are optimized for performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience to meet enterprise-grade requirements
• Design and operationalize high-performance microservices and data pipelines, ensuring end-to-end system health, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Efficiently collaborating 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.
• 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.
• Participating in Agile development processes.

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• 7+ years of back-end software development experience
• Expert-level programming and debugging skills in C++, Go
• Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing
• Strong knowledge of system performance and scaling
• Familiarity with AWS ecosytem - S3, SQS, AWS data protection services
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.

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.

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