Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Job Summary

We are looking for Software Engineers who are motivated and passionate and willing to enhance Cohesity’s Products and by working on features, tools, scripts that will make it easy to sell, deploy and maintain. You are not only a Software Engineer who designs and implements features but should have the knack of diagnosing problems in large bodies of complex code, understand scalability and performance and work on fixes with rapid turnaround time and high quality. You will be part of our Product and Sustenance Engineering team and willing to work with Product Managers and more importantly with Customer Support, System Engineers and Customers.

Responsibilities (What you will be doing)

The responsibilities and functions this role will perform on a regular basis, how the job functions within the organization and dependencies with other teams

• Lead a small team in all aspects of design, development and supporting our customers
• Mentor the team of engineers on writing testable & maintainable code
• Own & develop designs for complete feature set
• Engage in technical discussions with stakeholders -- Engineers, Architects, Product Managers and Designers
• Fine tune backlog and adjust scope/plans to deliver committed features
• Own deliverables by clearly communicating the scope, timelines and following through commitments
• Continuously assess risks and make decisions based on metrics
• Code and Implement features  requested by Product Management and/or Customers for on-prem and cloud platforms
• Perform in-depth root cause analysis, implement code fixes to resolve product defects
• Deep dive into analyzing, troubleshooting and fixing functional and Performance issues
• Collaborate with team members, support, QA and field teams to diagnose and troubleshoot complex customer issues and orchestrate development and testing of patches & hot-fixes
• Design and implement tools to help support engineers diagnose problems thereby reducing time to resolution
• This role requires an energetic, creative and driven individual with excellent communication and technical skills to partner with teams across the globe.

Qualifications (What you will bring along)

• Strong coding experience in any of these languages - C, C++, Golang, Javascript
• Comfortable in using tools - JIRA, Github, Testrail
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
• 10+ years of developing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems written in Go/C/C++ on Linux and Windows Platforms.
• Strong coding, analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills including use of tools such GDB, Python Debugger.
• Problem-solver who can dive deep to solve complex problems/issues.
• Bring good testing methodologies and passion for building quality products
• Knowledge of Microservices and SaaS architecture
• Looking for great communication skills.
• Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies
• Exposure to Data Management domain is highly desirable
• Ability to articulate design and implementation choices
• Ability to make decisions based on data and influence stakeholders

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