Sr Staff Software Engineer

Cohesity•Santa Clara, CA

2d•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 an outstanding Engineer who brings the experience of building LARGE distributed systems and solving sophisticated problems. Cohesity Data Platform is a limitless scale out system. It is the industry’s only hyperconverged platform crafted to consolidate ALL secondary storage and data services built on web-scale distributed architecture. Cohesity SpanFS was built to consolidate all secondary storage and eliminate legacy storage silos. It’s the only file system that combines NFS, SMB and S3 interfaces, global deduplication, and unlimited snaps and clones, on a web-scale platform. No more compromising between enterprise and cloud stacks! There will be a large variety of features to work on including: hyper-convergence, distributed data path, distributed filesystem, data across thousands of nodes, object storage, cloud services, asynchronous programming, performance optimization, software-defined infrastructure, consensus protocols, massively parallel and distributed data sets, infinite scalability, snapshots, resiliency, deduplication, compression, replication, multiple protocols, fault-tolerance, infrastructure and more that we cannot disclose yet.

Requirements

BS/MS/Phd in Computer Science or Engineering.
Strong coding experience in any of these languages - C++, Java, Golang
12+ years of developing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems.
A fast learner and self-starter with intellectual horsepower.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot).
Good analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
Problem-solver who can dive deep to solve complex problems/issues.
Bring good testing methodologies and passion for building quality products.
Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in Data Protection, Filesystems or Storage is a nice-to-have.
Knowledge of Microservices, SaaS architecture, Cloud native services is a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain innovative products for our on-prem as well as SaaS offerings
Collaborate with product management, other cross functional leads and teams on both technical and business strategy to shape 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 continuously improve how they work and achieve results.
Participating in Agile development processes.