Technical Director
Core
Define and drive the architectural vision for Cohesity's next-generation distributed storage platform, filesystem architecture, and high-performance datapath services to support AI-native environments.
Role type
Senior IC Technical Director (Distributed Storage & Filesystems) (via careerplan.io/jobs/R04882-technical-director-at-cohesity)
Builds
Cohesity's distributed storage platform, filesystem technologies, and datapath services for enterprise customers
Domain
Cloud-scale storage, distributed systems, filesystems, AI-enabled data management
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, Filesystem design, Storage subsystems, Performance engineering, Systems programming (C++, Go, Rust, Java), Operating system internals, Cloud-scale services, Technical leadership, Cross-functional influence, Scalability analysis
Preferred skills
Data protection platforms, Storage virtualization, AI/ML workloads, NVMe/RDMA, Kubernetes storage, Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
Technologies
C++, Go, Rust, Java, NVMe, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Define multi-year architecture roadmap for distributed storage and filesystems; Design scalable metadata services and data placement algorithms; Optimize datapath for high-throughput, low-latency data movement; Drive storage solutions for AI training and analytics workloads; Mentor senior engineers and establish engineering standards; Lead root-cause analysis for scalability bottlenecks.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence
