Cohesity

Principal Software Engineer

Cohesity
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4 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$340k - $378k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for cloud-native platform services.
  • Lead the design of large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems delivered as managed cloud services.
  • Architect platforms spanning compute, storage, networking, data, microservices, event-driven systems, service mesh, API gateways, and managed cloud services.
  • Build self-service deployment capabilities using GitOps and infrastructure as code.
  • Drive production ownership, failure-domain design, disaster recovery, fleet-wide upgrades, automation, and reduction of operational toil.
  • Design multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud, balancing common abstractions with cloud-specific capabilities.
  • Lead adoption of serverless, managed data services, cloud-native storage and networking, FinOps, and scalable platform operations.
  • Define cloud security and compliance architecture covering identity, encryption, network isolation, and zero trust.
  • Influence engineering strategy and architecture governance while mentoring senior and staff engineers.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, including 5+ years working with public cloud.
  • Deep expertise with containers and orchestration, including Kubernetes.
  • Strong experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architectures and highly scalable microservices.
  • Expertise in cloud storage, networking, compute services, and distributed data platforms.
  • Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; multi-cloud experience is preferred.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and automation at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability engineering principles.
  • Proficiency in Golang, Java, or Python; C++ is a plus.
  • Experience building highly performant systems and debugging complex distributed architectures.
  • Proven ability to influence engineering strategy at an organizational level, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees are eligible for health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays, refresh days, a 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, and other company benefits.
  • Employees within a reasonable commute of a core office work onsite 2–3 days per week of their choosing.
  • Candidates outside the designated area are expected to relocate before starting and must have the legal right to work in the job location.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureC++GoGoogle CloudHelmJavaKubernetesOracle CloudPythonTerraform

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About Cohesity

5,001-10,000 employees

Cohesity builds enterprise data security and management software that provides backup, disaster recovery, ransomware recovery, and data governance across data centers and public clouds. Its Cohesity Data Cloud is sold as subscription software, on integrated appliances, and as cloud services to large enterprises and public-sector customers. Privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Cohesity was founded in 2013 and focuses on cyber recovery and securing data at scale.

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