Senior Staff Software Engineer

Cohesity•Santa Clara, CA

7d•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 looking for Software Engineers who are motivated, hardworking, and eager to improve Cohesity’s Products and by working on features, tools, scripts that will make it easy to sell, deploy and maintain. You are not only a Software Engineer who crafts and implements features but should 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 and with Product Managers, Customer Support, System Engineers, and Customers as well.

Requirements

Strong coding experience in any of these languages - C++/ Go
Comfortable in using tools - JIRA, GitHub, Testrail
BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
12+ years of developing and solving problems for large-scale distributed systems written in (Insert Languages here) on Linux and Windows Platforms.
Strong coding, analytical, and debugging skills including the use of tools such as GDB, and Python Debugger.
Problem-solver who can investigate and solve sophisticated problems/issues.
Bring good testing methodologies and a passion for building quality products
Knowledge of Microservices and SaaS architecture
Looking for excellent interpersonal skills.
Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies
Ability to articulate design and implementation choices
Ability to make decisions based on data and influence partners
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Nice To Haves

Exposure to the Data Management domain is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Lead a small team in all aspects of design, development, and supporting our customers
Mentor the team of engineers on writing testable & maintainable code
Own & develop designs for the complete feature set
Engage in technical discussions with collaborators -- Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and Designers
Fine-tune backlog and adjust scope/plans to deliver committed features
Own deliverables by clearly communicating the scope, and timelines and following through with commitments
Continuously assess risks and craft decisions based on metrics
Code and implement features requested by Product Management and/or Customers for on-prem and cloud platforms
Perform in-depth root cause analysis, and implement code fixes to resolve product defects
Investigate, address problems, and fix functional and Performance issues
Collaborate with team members, support, QA, and field teams to diagnose and address sophisticated customer issues and orchestrate development and testing of patches & hot-fixes
Design and implement tools to help support engineers diagnose problems thereby reducing time to resolution