Egnyte is scouting for an experienced Principal Software Engineer with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude. The Software Engineering (Infrastructure) team builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte’s Cloud Platform. The Platform is a major step forward in the progression of how companies create, use, transact, and manage their critical data. It fuses the best of our file sharing and collaboration, security and governance solutions, and leverages Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Engine to give companies comprehensive management ability to secure and manage content across remote teams, enterprise apps, and any device.

Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. Some of the responsibilities for this team include: Egnyte’s Cloud File System, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets.
What You’ll Do (but is not limited to)

• Architect, design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
• Take ownership and drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
• Lead conversations and communicate complex design and architecture details
• Be an innovator who understands company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
• Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
• Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring

Your Qualifications 

• BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional experience in engineering with a history of technical innovation and application development
• Experience providing technical leadership to engineers
• Advanced hands-on Java programming experience, Python & Golang are a plus
• Experience architecting, designing and developing highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture; GCP or similar cloud platforms
• Worked with SQL and NoSQL databases
• An innovator willing to explore new technologies and looking for career growth through ownership and leadership opportunities

Bonus Skills

• Breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
• Demonstrated success in designing and developing large scale, complex systems
• Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
• Experience designing and developing distributed SaaS applications to a large customer base

Our Benefits

• Competitive salaries & Stock Options
• Comprehensive benefits for you and your family (low premiums and deductibles!)
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Employee Assistance Program, FSA, HAS, and Commuter/Parking benefits
• Fully paid premiums for life insurance (up to 2x your salary) / AD&D and the option to enroll in Voluntary Life Insurance
• Pet Plan-- Enroll in discounted Pet Insurance & Perkspot – Discount program available for entertainment, services, shopping & travel
• Global Travel – Medical benefits to cover any employees traveling out of the United States on a work-related trip
• Flexible hours and responsible time off
• Emotion & Physical Wellness – Free access to emotional and physical wellness apps including Spring Health, Headspace, Aaptiv, Ginger, and Physera
• Gym, cell phone, and commute reimbursement
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (Traditional and Roth)
• SoFi online financial services: Pay off debt sooner, invest in your future, or refinance your mortgage – all in one app
• FREE Egnyte lifetime membership

Egnyte Company Culture Highlights

• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Engineering Team 2021
• Engineering Department is ranked in the top 5% of companies for Overall Culture on Comparably.

Check us out on Comparably: https://www.comparably.com/companies/egnyte 

Equal Opportunity Employment

Egnyte is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

About Egnyte

In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 customers trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com

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