Software Engineer (C++, Backend)

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design , and our culture. Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security? 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). WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING: Years of experience: 4-6 years Infrastructure, back-end development experience 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 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. Work in a fast paced and agile development environment with ability to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects. 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