Staff Software Engineer (Data Protection, C++)

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 Software Engineers who are 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.

Role Overview:

Ideal candidate is passionate about software development and quality, has an intuitive understanding of the scale and performance limits of every layer in the hardware/software stack, has the intellectual rigor to reason about the theoretical limits of our software architecture and own the areas with the highest impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed software systems using C++, Golang and Java on Linux
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct performance/scale bottlenecks in the code 
• Help maintain code quality by automation of test cases
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Mentor and guide junior engineers
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies
• Analyze failures, root cause issues, file defects, follow up with developers, documentation and other teams on the resolution
• Able to derive meaningful insights from the collected data, articulate findings effectively with senior team members to troubleshoot issues in customer environments

Requirements:

• Understanding of storage concepts and working experience in the storage domain is a must
• Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture and performance
• Proficiency in any of C++, Java, or Go programming languages
• Good understanding of Git
• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems (filesystems, databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.)
• Experience with systems performance analysis using techniques like CPU profiling, tracing by using standard linux tools
• Strong analytical , troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Collaborate with different Development Teams, PMs and Support, to drive the closure on requirements and provide necessary performance metrics/solutions
• Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology.
• Good communication skills
• Guiding and helping team members