Principal Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office)Full-time$340k–$378k2026-11-02 → 2026-11-10

Hybrid

Core

Lead architecture and development of next-generation cloud-native services and platform infrastructure for large-scale SaaS and multi-cloud environments.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (L8), strategic architect and technical leader

Builds

Cloud-native platform services, multi-tenant distributed systems, and infrastructure for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, multi-cloud architecture

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Kubernetes, Microservices design, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI), Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Golang/Java/Python, Technical leadership, Mentoring

Preferred skills

C++, Serverless architectures, FinOps, Zero trust security

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Golang, Java, Python, C++

About Cohesity

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.