Principal Engineer

With 17,000 customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters who doers, thinkers, and collaborators are who embrace and live by our values:\n\nInvested Relationships\nFiscal Prudence\nCandid Conversations\n\nABOUT EGNYTE\nEgnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere.

For more information, visit\nwww.egnyte.com.\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\nEgnyte is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment.

We process and analyze millions of files and events on a daily basis. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates 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.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\nDesign and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems\nDrive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient\nEffectively communicate complex design and architecture details\nUnderstand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies\nConceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported\nOwn all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring\nQualifications\nBS, MS, or PhD.

in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience\n8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with history of technical innovation\nExperience providing technical leadership to engineers\nBonus Qualifications (Good to Have)\nBreadth 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\nDemonstrated success in designing and developing large scale, complex systems\nExpertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired\nBENEFITS\nCompetitive salaries\nMedical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family\nFully paid premiums for life insurance\nFlexible hours and PTO\nGym reimbursement\nChildcare reimbursement\nGroup term life insurance\nCOMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION:\nAt Egnyte, we celebrate our differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.