Senior Software Engineer

Cohesity•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$179,056 - $198,951•Hybrid

About The Position

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 at scale. We’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. 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.

Requirements

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 filesystems and/or storage protocols and concepts
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.

Responsibilities

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.