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Staff Software Engineer

Cohesity

Cohesity

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on May 2, 2025

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.

Want to help us innovate and deliver world-class data management solutions?

The R&D team at Cohesity is on a mission to help organizations manage and protect their data in smarter and more scalable ways. Our customer-obsessed engineers design innovative solutions that tackle the hardest technical challenges. As a Member of Technical Staff (MTS5), you will play a critical role in enhancing our platform through innovative development, rapid problem-solving, and close collaboration with Product Management, Customer Support, System Engineers, and our customers, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering.

We are a passionate team of builders who thrive on diagnosing, scaling, and solving complex challenges. We value high-quality execution, collaboration, and customer focus, and we’re looking for engineers who take pride in delivering innovative, reliable solutions while supporting and mentoring teammates.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE

  • Lead a small team in designing, developing, and supporting features for on-prem and cloud platforms.

  • Mentor engineers on writing testable and maintainable code and drive the development of complete feature sets.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, Designers, and Support teams to drive technical solutions.

  • Perform in-depth root cause analysis, troubleshoot and fix complex product issues, and develop tools to accelerate problem resolution.

  • Own the delivery of features and fixes with clear communication, risk management, and timely execution.

Example: “You will use strong debugging and coding skills to identify and resolve critical customer issues within our data management platform, improving reporting time by 30% within 12 months.”

WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

  • 8+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and SaaS architectures.

  • Strong programming experience, like Golang, C++ or Java.

  • Expertise in analyzing, debugging, and troubleshooting complex technical problems.

  • Familiarity with open-source technologies such as Kafka, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache Flink, or Confluent Schema Registry.

  • Experience working with tools like JIRA, GitHub, and TestRail.

  • Proven track record of leading projects end-to-end, including customer rollout.

  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

  • Exposure to the Data Management domain is highly desirable.

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Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.