Senior Director Software Engineering

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? 

We are building massively distributed systems at web-scale. You would be leading teams that work on building massively parallel and distributed systems that are secure, hardened and safe. We are looking for experienced and innovative leaders who are up for the challenge of leading, innovating, mentoring and driving for outcomes. We look for exceptional minds who love to go deep and will do whatever it takes to solve big problems and step up to big challenges.   

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:  

• As an engineering leader, you will inspire, lead and manage a team of world-class software engineers across geo's that are transforming how enterprise customers manage their data.   
• This role requires an energetic, creative, and driven individual with excellent communication, organization, and technical skills to partner with various organizations.   
• In this role, you will be responsible for driving some of our most strategic technical projects, delivering large-scale systems, designing new software systems at the cutting edge of distributed systems technologies, and having a significant impact on the success of Cohesity.   
• Responsibilities:  
• Inspire, Motivate, lead and manage a team of world-class developers that design and develop Security features for our on-prem as well as SaaS offerings.  
• Drive security initiatives across engineering organizations.  
• Define operational metrics and key performance indicators to assure the team achieves operational excellence  
• Drive, design, and implement innovative services to improve our public cloud and onprem security infrastructure  
• Co-create and help articulate product Security strategy and operations within Cohesity engineering.  
• Drive thought leadership, innovation and accelerate high-quality SDLC within engineering.  
• Mentor, lead, and grow leaders in the team.  
• Work closely with various stakeholders within Cohesity like product management, program management, sales, QA, and support teams to deliver high-quality products and drive the product vision and roadmap.  
• Understand market dynamics to drive security product direction and execution for the team.  

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

• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science.  
• 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in planning, architecting, and delivering high-quality products.  
• 7+ years of building, managing or leading high-performance development teams.  
• Solid experience in managing managers.  
• Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies.  
• Previous experience building a highly scalable distributed system.  
• Previous experience of managing cross geo teams is a plus.  
• Security principles, standards and framework is a plus. 
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

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Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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In-Office Expectations

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.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the right to work in the job location.