Software Engineer

Cohesity is a leading company in AI-powered data security and management, supported by a wide network of partners. The company focuses on simplifying the processes of securing, protecting, managing, and deriving value from data across various environments such as the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity's solutions aid organizations in defending against cybersecurity threats through comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including features like immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and scalable recovery options. The company has received recognition from multiple analyst firms for its leadership, innovation, product strength, and simplicity in design. Cohesity invites individuals to join them on their mission to shape the future of the industry and redefine modern data management practices together. Cohesity is looking for talented Engineers/Leads with a background in building large distributed systems and solving complex problems. The Cohesity Data Platform offers a scale-out system that consolidates all secondary storage and data services on a web-scale distributed architecture. Cohesity SpanFS is designed to eliminate legacy storage silos by combining various interfaces like NFS, SMB, and S3, along with features such as global deduplication, unlimited snaps and clones, all on a web-scale platform. The role involves working on a wide range of features including hyper-convergence, distributed data path, distributed filesystem, object storage, cloud services, asynchronous programming, performance optimization, software-defined infrastructure, consensus protocols, scalability, snapshots, resiliency, deduplication, compression, replication, fault-tolerance, and more undisclosed aspects. As a part of the core development team, you will be responsible for designing and building massively distributed systems at web-scale, focusing on the core backend of the Cohesity Data Platform and Cohesity SpanFS. Qualifications and Experience: - 3+ years of experience in developing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems - Proficiency in infrastructure and back-end development - BE/BTech degree in Computer Science with knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design. A Master's degree would be advantageous. - Experience in handling large-scale engineering challenges and highly available distributed systems - Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing - Strong programming and debugging skills in C and C++ - Familiarity with distributed storage, filesystems, and object storage is a plus - Ability to solve complex problems efficiently, including debugging and diagnosing production software - Experience working in a fast-paced and agile development environment, with a proactive approach to task completion and project ownership - Excellent communication skills and sharp analytical abilities In-Office Expectations: Cohesity employees who live within a reasonable commute time are expected to work out of the core offices 2-3 days a week based on their preference. Data Privacy Notice: For information on personal data processing, please refer to the company's Privacy Policy.,