Staff Software Engineer

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 Software Engineers who are motivated, hardworking, and eager to enhance Cohesity’s products by developing features, tools, and scripts that simplify the process of selling, deploying, and maintaining them. You are not only a Software Engineer who crafts and implements features, but should have a curiosity about diagnosing problems in large bodies of sophisticated code, understand scalability and performance, and work on fixes with rapid turnaround time and high quality. This position will focus on working closely with our Product and Sustenance Engineering team, as well as with Product Managers, Customer Support, System Engineers, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team in all aspects of design, development, and supporting our customers
• Mentor the team of engineers on writing testable & maintainable code
• Own & develop designs for the complete feature set
• Engage in technical discussions with collaborators -- Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and Designers
• Fine-tune backlog and adjust scope/plans to deliver committed features
• Own deliverables by clearly communicating the scope, and timelines and following through with commitments
• Continuously assess risks and craft decisions based on metrics
• Code and implement features requested by Product Management and/or Customers for on-prem and cloud platforms
• Perform in-depth root cause analysis, and implement code fixes to resolve product defects
• Investigate, address problems, and fix functional and Performance issues
• Collaborate with team members, support, QA, and field teams to diagnose and address sophisticated customer issues and orchestrate development and testing of patches & hot-fixes
• Design and implement tools to help support engineers diagnose problems, thereby reducing time to resolution

Requirements

• Strong coding experience in any of these languages - C++/ Go
• Comfortable in using tools - JIRA, GitHub, Testrail
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
• 12+ years of developing and solving problems for large-scale distributed systems written in (Insert Languages here) on Linux and Windows Platforms
• Strong coding, analytical, and debugging skills, including the use of tools such as GDB and Python Debugger
• Problem-solver who can investigate and solve sophisticated problems/issues
• Bring good testing methodologies and a passion for building quality products
• Knowledge of Microservices and SaaS architecture
• Looking for excellent interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies
• Exposure to the Data Management domain is highly desirable
• Ability to articulate design and implementation choices
• Ability to make decisions based on data and influence partners

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Vacation
• Paid holidays and refresh days
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life and disability insurance coverages
• Bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants