Senior Software Engineer, Cloud | Santa Clara, CA 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 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.

• 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 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
• 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

• 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++ and 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 ecosystem – 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

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The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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In-Office Expectations:
Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g., within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2–3 days a week of their choosing.

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