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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. \nWe’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. \nWant to join the leader in AI-powered data security?\nWe are seeking a highly accomplished Technical Leader to define and drive the architectural vision for Cohesity's next-generation distributed storage platform, filesystem architecture, data access layer, and high-performance datapath services.\nThis is one of the most senior individual contributor roles at Cohesity. You will shape the long-term technical strategy for how data is stored, protected, accessed, moved, and analyzed across on-premises, cloud, and AI-native environments. As a recognized expert in large-scale storage systems, you will influence product direction, guide critical architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams across the organization.\nYou will work at the intersection of distributed systems, filesystems, performance engineering, data services, cloud-scale storage, and AI-enabled data management, helping build the foundation powering Cohesity's growth for years to come.\nHOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture\nDefine and own the multi-year architecture roadmap for Cohesity's distributed storage platform, filesystem technologies, and datapath services.\nDrive the evolution of core storage subsystems including metadata management, caching, indexing, replication, deduplication, compression, snapshots, and recovery workflows.\nAuthor foundational architecture documents and technical strategies that influence multiple engineering organizations.\nLead complex cross-functional initiatives involving platform, cloud, security, AI, product, and customer-facing teams.\nServe as a technical authority and represent Cohesity's storage architecture vision with customers, partners, and industry leaders.\nDrive architectural decisions that improve scalability, resiliency, performance, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency.\nFilesystem & Storage Platform Innovation\nDesign and evolve highly scalable distributed filesystem architectures capable of handling exabyte-scale workloads.\nLead development of next-generation metadata services, namespace management, storage virtualization, and data placement algorithms.\nDrive innovations in SmartFiles, Data Access Layer, data indexing, and advanced file services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.\nArchitect storage solutions optimized for structured, unstructured, backup, archive, and AI training workloads.\nImprove storage efficiency through advanced data reduction techniques including deduplication, compression, erasure coding, and intelligent tiering.\nEstablish best practices for filesystem consistency, fault tolerance, recovery, and self-healing capabilities.\nDrive adoption of modern storage technologies including NVMe, object storage, cloud-native storage services, and software-defined storage architectures.\nDatapath & Performance Engineering\nOwn the technical vision for Cohesity's end-to-end datapath, including ingestion, storage, retrieval, replication, recovery, and analytics workflows.\nDesign high-throughput, low-latency data movement frameworks capable of supporting petabyte-scale deployments.\nOptimize CPU, memory, networking, and storage subsystems to maximize platform performance and efficiency.\nLead architecture initiatives for workload balancing, caching strategies, intelligent prefetching, and IO scheduling.\nDrive performance benchmarking and capacity planning across large-scale customer environments.\nDevelop strategies to improve system observability, telemetry, diagnostics, and operational excellence across the datapath stack.\nLead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex scalability and performance bottlenecks.\nAI-Driven Data Platform Innovation\nDrive the storage architecture required to support emerging AI and GenAI workloads.\nDesign data access patterns and retrieval architectures optimized for AI applications, vector workloads, and large-scale analytics.\nCollaborate with AI platform teams to enable efficient data pipelines, feature stores, vector indexing, and retrieval systems.\nDefine strategies for AI-assisted storage optimization, workload prediction, anomaly detection, and automated performance tuning.\nInfluence the architecture of data services that support RAG, intelligent search, and AI-powered data discovery.\nEngineering Excellence & Mentorship\nRaise the technical bar through deep design reviews, architecture evaluations, code reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.\nMentor senior and principal engineers across storage, platform, and cloud infrastructure organizations.\nEstablish engineering standards for performance, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.\nLead technical investigations, proof-of-concepts, and adoption of emerging storage technologies.\nPartner with engineering leadership on roadmap planning, talent strategy, and technical succession planning.\nWE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:\nRequired\n15+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in storage systems, distributed systems, filesystems, or cloud infrastructure platforms.\nProven Principal, Distinguished, or Staff+ level impact delivering large-scale storage or distributed systems that operate in production at significant scale.\nDeep expertise in distributed filesystem architecture, metadata management, storage services, and large-scale data platforms.\nExtensive experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and horizontally scalable systems.\nStrong understanding of storage fundamentals including filesystems, object storage, block storage, distributed storage architectures, data protection technologies, and replication and recovery systems.\nHands-on experience with datapath optimization, performance engineering, profiling, and scalability analysis.\nStrong systems programming expertise in one or more of: C++, Go, Rust, Java.\nDeep understanding of operating system internals, concurrency, memory management, networking, and performance tuning.\nExperience designing and operating cloud-scale distributed services.\nDemonstrated ability to drive technical alignment and influence across multiple organizations without direct authority.\nPreferred\nExperience with data protection, backup and recovery platforms.\nStrong background in SmartFiles, Data Access Layer architecture, storage virtualization, or global namespace technologies.\nExperience building storage solutions for AI, machine learning, analytics, or high-performance computing workloads.\nExpertise with NVMe, RDMA, high-speed networking, Kubernetes storage, or software-defined storage platforms.\nFamiliarity with modern cloud storage ecosystems including AWS, Azure, and GCP.\nContributions to storage-related open-source projects, standards bodies, or industry publications.\nPatents, technical papers, or recognized industry contributions in distributed systems or storage technologies.\nExperience driving architecture for multi-tenant SaaS data platforms.\nData Privacy Notice for Job Candidates:\nFor information on personal data processing, please see our Privacy Policy.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)\nCohesity 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.\nIf you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at 1-855-9COHESITY or  for assistance.\nIn-Office Expectations\nCohesity 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.\nWe strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. 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