Vice President of Engineering, Developer Experience, AI Enablement & SecOps
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Santa Clara County, CA - USA
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Job Summary
We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners Cohesity makes it easy to secure protect manage and get value from data across the data center edge and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities including immutable backup snapshots AI-based threat detection monitoring for malicious behavior and rapid recovery at scale.
Weve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation Product Strength and Simplicity in Design.
Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.
Software development is undergoing a fundamental shift. AI agents now generate test and refactor code at machine speed and the engineering system that validates secures and ships that code must evolve just as fast. This is not a DevOps role. This is a transformation role.
Were looking for a VP of Engineering to own the full Developer Experience AI-enabled SDLC and Security Operations function redefining how software is built validated secured and deployed across Cohesity. The mission: enable developers and AI agents to ship dramatically faster while continuously raising the bar on quality security and cost efficiency.
Were evolving from:Code Review Test Security Deploy
To:Generate Understand Validate Secure Deploy Observe Remediate Learn
AI and automation handle the mechanical work. You build the system that makes that possible.
HOW YOULL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE
- Lead and scale the organization. Manage a globally distributed team of Directors and Senior Directors spanning Developer Experience CI/CD test infrastructure engineering automation DevSecOps and engineering intelligence. Set the multi-year strategy own the roadmap and build the operating model that scales with AI-driven velocity.
- Transform Developer Experience. Build the internal developer platform that eliminates friction from idea to production self-service environments AI-powered dev tooling and analytics that make underlying engineering complexity invisible.
- Reinvent CI/CD and test infrastructure. Evolve pipelines from static pass/fail checks into intelligent delivery systems that understand what changed whats at risk and what validation is required. Build AI-driven risk-adaptive test selection so high-confidence changes ship fast and high-risk changes get deep scrutiny.
- Build AI-powered code review and automated remediation. Develop systems that perform semantic analysis security scanning architecture compliance and regression prediction at machine scale shifting engineers from reviewing every line to reviewing intent and exceptions. Automate patch generation validation and forward/backward propagation across releases.
- Own Product Security Operations. Embed security directly into engineering. Own application security supply-chain security SAST/DAST/SCA secrets management vulnerability management and automated remediation in close partnership with the CISO. Secure by default; continuously validated; automatically remediated.
- Drive engineering economics. Own infrastructure spend across CI/CD compute dev environments observability AI inference and cloud. Establish cost-per-developer and cost-per-deployment metrics. Maximize engineering output per dollar while keeping developer experience pristine.
- Close the production-to-development learning loop. Connect production incidents customer escalations and performance signals back to the development system so every failure improves engineering intelligence and prevents recurrence.
WED LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 15 years of engineering leadership including managing large multi-layered global organizations
- Proven track record leading Developer Experience Platform Engineering DevOps SRE or Engineering Productivity organizations at scale
- Deep understanding of CI/CD software delivery and distributed systems architecture
- Hands-on experience with DevSecOps vulnerability management security automation compliance and threat detection
- Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML LLMs and agentic frameworks to engineering workflows across the SDLC
- Strong understanding of engineering telemetry productivity metrics and engineering-outcome measurement
- Track record of attracting building and retaining world-class engineering talent across globally distributed teams
- You think in systems not tools your benchmark is not whether the pipeline passed but whether the engineering system learned
The Leadership Profile Were Looking For
- Developer Obsessed You understand that developer experience is a competitive advantage and that friction compounds across thousands of engineers.
- AI Native You dont add an AI assistant to existing workflows. You rethink the workflow assuming AI is a first-class participant.
- Technically Deep You engage credibly with senior engineers on distributed systems CI/CD security AI/ML and software architecture.
- Security mindset You believe secure software is the natural output of a well-designed engineering system not a downstream gate.
- Economically Disciplined You treat infrastructure cost as an engineering metric not a finance problem.
Transformation Oriented Youve moved organizations from legacy processes to fundamentally new operating models and you have the scars to prove it.
The Challenge
If AI can generate software 10 faster how do we build an engineering system that validates secures reviews and ships that software 10 faster without multiplying infrastructure cost or developer friction
And then build it.
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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors including a candidates skills qualifications and experience location and salary expectations and therefore a starting salary at the low end high end or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation commission (if in a sales function) and/or equity grants. Additionally full-time employees are eligible to participate in ourcomprehensive benefits framework including health and wellness benefits vacation paid holidays and refresh days 401(k) retirement plan life and disability insurance coverages and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)
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.
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About Company
Cohesity gives you both data security and data management. Defend against ransomware with immutable backup, AI-based early threat detection, and rapid data recovery.
