Technical Director

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.   We’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 .  Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?   We 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. This 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. You 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. HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE: Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and own the multi-year architecture roadmap for Cohesity's distributed storage platform, filesystem technologies, and datapath services. Drive the evolution of core storage subsystems including metadata management, caching, indexing, replication, deduplication, compression, snapshots, and recovery workflows. Author foundational architecture documents and technical strategies that influence multiple engineering organizations. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving platform, cloud, security, AI, product, and customer-facing teams. Serve as a technical authority and represent Cohesity's storage architecture vision with customers, partners, and industry leaders. Drive architectural decisions that improve scalability, resiliency, performance, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency. Filesystem & Storage Platform Innovation Design and evolve highly scalable distributed filesystem architectures capable of handling exabyte-scale workloads. Lead development of next-generation metadata services, namespace management, storage virtualization, and data placement algorithms. Drive innovations in SmartFiles, Data Access Layer, data indexing, and…