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Senior Software Engineer

Cohesity
Washington, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Aug 2025
💰 $190,800/yr($152,640/yr$190,800/yr)

About the role

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.

Please note the following requirements for this Senior Software Engineer career opportunity:

  • Required: Current residency in the US
  • Required: Strong backend coding skills in C++, Java, and/or GO (proficient in at least one)
  • Required: Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, and system design
  • Preferred: Experience with gPRC, ShellScript, Linux OS, Windows OS, and virtualization (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc)
  • Preferred: Experience with multithreading, parallel processing, concurrency, throughput, latency, locks, semaphores.




Want to help us simplify the world of data management?

Cohesity offers a web-scale, hybrid cloud infrastructure for data management. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is motivated and hardworking and strive to improve Cohesity’s Products and by working on features, tools, scripts that will make them easy to sell, deploy and maintain. You are not only a Software Engineer who crafts and implements features but should have a curiosity about diagnosing problems in large bodies of complex code, Also is able to comprehend scalability and performance and work on fixes with rapid turnaround time and high-quality results. Along with being part of our Product and Sustenance Engineering team, you will also be collaborating with Product Managers and more importantly with 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

  • 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 continuously improve how they work and achieve results.

  • 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 or Engineering.

  • Proficient coding in C/C++ (ideally), or Java or Go

  • 8+ years of developing and solving large-scale distributed systems

  • Operating system level knowledge of Windows and Linux along with basic networking skills

  • Good analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills.

  • Outstanding problem-solver who can dive deep to address complex problems/issues.

  • Motivated to improve testing methodologies and has a passion for building quality products

  • Previous experience in Data Protection, Filesystems or Storage is a nice-to-have

  • Knowledge of Microservices, SaaS architecture, and Cloud native services is a plus

  • Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies.

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,

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