Staff Software Engineer

🕒 March 5

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Cohesity

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1001 - 5000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity • Data Management • Cloud

Cohesity is a cloud data management platform that enables enterprises to protect, back up, and manage their data across various environments in a unified manner. By providing comprehensive solutions for data protection, security, and compliance, Cohesity helps organizations to optimize their data management strategies and enhance resilience against cyber threats and data loss. Their services are tailored to improve operational efficiency and empower businesses to derive actionable insights from their data.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for our large-scale, highly available backup and recovery platform. • Drive system design decisions, mentor engineers, and lead complex initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and performance across the stack. • Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, highly available distributed systems. • Define architectural standards and best practices for concurrency, scalability, and resilience. • Drive performance optimization initiatives across multi-threaded and parallel processing systems. • Own critical components of the backup and disaster recovery platform end-to-end. • Provide expert-level C++ development and debugging leadership across Linux and Windows environments. • Architect and optimize high-performance Windows applications and services, including Win32-based systems. • Lead advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues. • Guide system performance benchmarking, profiling, and scaling strategies. • Drive innovation in backup and disaster recovery technologies. • Provide technical oversight for integrations with Microsoft SQL Server, including backup and restore workflows. • Ensure system reliability across Windows and Linux platforms. • Lead high-impact projects from concept to delivery, ensuring technical excellence and on-time execution. • Partner closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and Customer Support to resolve field issues and shape roadmap priorities. • Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams. • Contribute to technical strategy and long-term platform evolution.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems in C++ across Linux and Windows platforms. • Proven track record of architecting and scaling production-grade systems. • Deep expertise in multithreading, concurrency, and performance engineering. • Strong hands-on experience with: • Backup and disaster recovery systems • Windows application and systems programming (Win32) • Advanced debugging tools (WinDbg, Visual Studio Debugger) • Strong coding standards and code review leadership. • Experience working with engineering tools such as JIRA, GitHub, and TestRail. • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance developer productivity, automate workflows, and improve decision-making. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers across the organization.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible working arrangements