Staff Software Engineer C++, Distributed Storage, filesystems & cloud skills

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13600 enterprise customers including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500 rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas enterprise data protection business the companys solutions secure and protect data on-premises in the cloud and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA IBM HPE Cisco AWS Google Cloud and others Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara CA with offices around the globe.

Weve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation Product Strength and Simplicity in Design and our culture.

Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security

We are seeking an outstanding Senior Engineer/ Leads who bring the experience of building LARGE distributed systems and solving sophisticated problems.

Cohesity Data Platform is a limitless scale out system. It is the industrys 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. Its 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.

HOW YOULL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
As part of this core development team you will design and build massively distributed systems at web-scale. You will be building the core backend of the Cohesity Data Platform and Cohesity SpanFS (limitless Filesystem).

WED LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• 8 years of experience in infrastructure and backend systems engineering building and operating production-grade services at scale.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent with strong fundamentals in data structures algorithms and system design; Masters degree is a plus.

• Proven experience designing building and operating large-scale highly available distributed systems in production environments.

• Strong understanding of concurrency multithreading synchronization and parallel execution in real-world systems.

• Expert-level programming debugging and performance optimization skills in C C Go or Java.

• Hands-on experience with distributed storage filesystems or object storage architectures is a strong plus.

• Demonstrated ability to debug diagnose and resolve complex production issues including system-level failures and data correctness problems.

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced agile environment independently driveambiguous problems to resolution and own end-to-end delivery of critical projects.

• Strong technical communication analytical thinking and the ability to collaborate across teams and influence engineering direction.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools to streamline workflows enhance productivity and support high-quality decision-making.

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