Staff Software Engineer, Storage Filesystems

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
Database
The Role

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.

We are seeking motivated, hardworking Software Engineers 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.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

  • Design, develop, and maintain innovative products for our on-prem as well as SaaS offerings, including distributed file systems, archival products, and cloud services.

  • Efficiently collaborating 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.

  • Implement product features for on-prem and cloud platforms.

  • 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.

  • Participating in Agile development processes.

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

  • Min 10+ years of back-end software development experience

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

  • Development experience with large-scale, highly available distributed systems is a plus

  • Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing

  • Expert-level programming and debugging skills in C++

  • Strong knowledge of system performance and scaling

  • Previous experience in distributed file systems.

  • 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

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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.

Pay Range :

$203,101.00-$225,668.26

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

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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.
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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.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the right to work in the job location.

Cohesity Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cohesity and has not been reviewed or approved by Cohesity.

  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Leave and wellness programs appear broad, including flexible time off, company-wide refresh days, meeting-free focus blocks, an EAP, and learning/wellness perks such as MindGym sessions and Scribd access.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental and family benefits are positioned as a notable strength, with paid parental leave and additional family supports such as fertility benefits via Progyny.
  • Healthcare Strength Core coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision offerings for employees and families alongside related support resources.

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