Security Software Engineer

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13600 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 companys 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.

Weve 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

• Design develop and maintain security features tools frameworks and automation for enterprise-scale products and platforms.

• Contribute to secure architecture and design reviews for new and existing systems.

• Perform threat modeling risk assessment and security reviews for product features services APIs and infrastructure components.

• Identify analyze and remediate security vulnerabilities in application code services cloud infrastructure and third-party dependencies.

• Build and improve security automation for vulnerability detection remediation compliance validation secrets management and policy enforcement.

• Partner with engineering teams to implement secure coding practices and security-by-design principles.

• Expertise in using AI to build Security Code Scanning Patching and CVE discovery similar to SAST DAST SCA container security and identity systems.

• Work on authentication authorization access control encryption key management audit logging and secure communication mechanisms.

• Participate in incident response activities root cause analysis and long-term remediation planning when required.

• Define and implement security best practices for cloud-native distributed and microservices-based environments.

• Mentor junior engineers and help raise the security engineering maturity of the broader organization.

• Create technical documentation design specifications security guidelines and operational runbooks.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cybersecurity or a related technical field.

• 8 years of software development experience with at least 4 years focused on security engineering application security product security or cloud security.

• Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Go Python or Rust.

• Deep understanding of secure software development lifecycle practices.

• Strong knowledge of application security concepts including OWASP Top 10 secure coding input validation authentication authorization session management and API security.

• Experience with threat modeling security architecture reviews and vulnerability remediation.

• Good understanding of cryptography fundamentals TLS PKI encryption hashing signing and key management.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP.

• Familiarity with container and Kubernetes security concepts.

• Experience with CI/CD security DevSecOps practices and security automation.

• Strong debugging problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to work independently on complex technical problems with minimal supervision.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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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.