Staff Software Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer to design, develop, and deliver next-generation, cloud-native SaaS products. This individual will play a pivotal role in building large-scale distributed data platforms and high-performance services that power our modern data ecosystem. The ideal candidate is passionate about designing for scale, reliability, and operational excellence in a multi-cloud environment

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Build and deliver next-generation products designed to run efficiently as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on leading

•  public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP)

• Architect and implement large-scale distributed data systems that are optimized for performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience to meet enterprise-grade requirements

• Design and operationalize high-performance microservices and data pipelines, ensuring end-to-end system health, scalability, and fault tolerance.

• 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.

• 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:

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

• 7+ years of back-end software development experience

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

• Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing

• Strong knowledge of system performance and scaling

• Familiarity with AWS ecosytem - S3, SQS, AWS data protection services

• 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

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.