Senior Director, Performance Engineering
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 240000 - 300000
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
Weve 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.
Senior Director Performance Engineering(Data Protection & Security Product)
The Senior Director of Performance Engineering will lead the performance strategy and executionforour flagship Data Protection & Security product. This executive roleis responsible fordefining driving and ensuring the highest levels of product performance scalability and reliability to support our enterprise customers critical security needs. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with deep technicalexpertisein performance engineering a strong background in data protection and security solutions and a proventrack recordof building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
HOW YOULL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
Define and own the performance engineering vision strategy and roadmap for the Data Protection & Security product portfolio.
Lead and scale a cross-functional team of performance engineers architects and analysts to deliver robust high-performing solutions.
Establish and enforce best practices for performance testing benchmarking profiling and tuning across the product lifecycle.
Collaborate closely with Product Management Security Development and Operations teams to ensure performance is embedded in all stages of design and delivery.
Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement for performance-related incidents and customer escalations.
Set andmonitorkey performance indicators (KPIs) and service-levelobjectives(SLOs) to meet or exceed customer and regulatory requirements.
Stay current with industry trends emerging threats and technology advancements in data protection security and performance engineering.
Mentor and develop engineering talent fostering a culture of innovation accountability and technical excellence.
Represent the organization in customer partner and industry forums as a subject matter expert in performance engineering for security products.
WED LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
Bachelors orMasters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
10 years of experience in performance engineering with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within the cybersecurity or data protection domain.
Expert knowledge of performance modeling large-scale distributed systems and cloud-nativearchitecture(e.g. AWS Azure GCP).
Strong understanding of data protection protocols encryption authentication and regulatory compliance frameworks.
Proven experience with performance testing tools profiling utilities and monitoring solutions (e.g. JMeter LoadRunner New Relic Grafana).
Exceptional leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence and partner with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
Experience with SaaS product delivery andDevSecOpspractices.
Background in machine learning analytics or advanced monitoring for security performance optimization.
Published thought leadership or participation in industry standards bodies or working groups.
Demonstrated ability toleverageAItools to enhance productivity streamline workflows and support decision-making
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 candidates 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 ourcomprehensive 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.
Pay Range :
The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)
Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin or nationality ancestry age disability gender identity or expression marital status veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying you may contact us atCOHESITY or for assistance.
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.
Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply provided they have the right to work in the job location.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Cohesity gives you both data security and data management. Defend against ransomware with immutable backup, AI-based early threat detection, and rapid data recovery.
