Software Engineer, Data Platform

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.

Let's redefine the modern world of data management together!

We are seeking an outstanding 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 industry’s 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. It’s 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 you’ll 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).

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 5 years of infrastructure, backend development experience
• You have worked on and understand:
• NAS, filers, and file systems
• NAS protocols such as SMB, CIFS, NFS, or S3
• Disaster recovery and/or replication
• BE/BTech degree in Computer Science with proficiency in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Master’s degree would be a plus.
• Having worked on and understanding of large scale engineering challenges and highly available distributed systems.
• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing
• High level programming and debugging skills in C, C++, Golang or Java
• Familiarity in distributed storage, filesystems, object storage is a huge plus
• Efficient skills to solve complex problems. Experience with debugging, diagnosing, and fixing complex, production software.
• Willingness to participate in a fast paced and agile development environment with ability to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
• Excellent communication and sharp analytical abilities.

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.US Pay Range$121,552—$150,000 USD

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