Staff Software Engineer (Data Protection, C++)

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.

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Want to help us simplify the world of data management?

Cohesity offers a web-scale, hybrid cloud infrastructure for data management. We are looking for Software Engineers who are motivated and hardworking and strive to improve Cohesity’s Products and by working on features, tools, scripts that will make them 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 complex code, Also is able to comprehend scalability and performance and work on fixes with rapid turnaround time and high-quality results. Along with being part of our Product and Sustenance Engineering team, you will also be collaborating with Product Managers and more importantly with Customer Support, System Engineers and Customers.

Role Overview:

Ideal candidate is passionate about software development and quality, has an intuitive understanding of the scale and performance limits of every layer in the hardware/software stack, has the intellectual rigor to reason about the theoretical limits of our software architecture and own the areas with the highest impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed software systems using C++, Golang and Java on Linux
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct performance/scale bottlenecks in the code
• Help maintain code quality by automation of test cases
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Mentor and guide junior engineers
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies
• Analyze failures, root cause issues, file defects, follow up with developers, documentation and other teams on the resolution
• Able to derive meaningful insights from the collected data, articulate findings effectively with senior team members to troubleshoot issues in customer environments

Requirements:

• Understanding of storage concepts and working experience in the storage domain is a must
• Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture and performance
• Proficiency in any of C++, Java, or Go programming languages
• Good understanding of Git
• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems (filesystems, databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.)
• Experience with systems performance analysis using techniques like CPU profiling, tracing by using standard linux tools
• Strong analytical , troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Collaborate with different Development Teams, PMs and Support, to drive the closure on requirements and provide necessary performance metrics/solutions
• Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology.
• Good communication skills
• Guiding and helping team members 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. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.US Pay Range$192,000—$240,000 USD * * *

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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.