About the job :

EGNYTE YOUR CAREER. SPARK YOUR PASSION.

Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 22,000+ customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, youre not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters that are doers, thinkers, and collaborators who embrace and live by our values : Invested Relationships, Fiscal Prudence, Candid Conversations.

About Egnyte :

Egnyte 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 www.egnyte.com.

What youll do & qualifications :

1. Experience :

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years managing backend or infrastructure teams (including managing senior and staff engineers).

- Proven track record operating high-scale production systems - petabyte-scale, with tens of thousands of requests per second or more.

- Deep, hands-on expertise with object stores or distributed storage systems, including consistent hashing, quorum and replication protocols, erasure coding, storage tiering, compaction, garbage collection, and the trade-offs in an S3-style API.

- Strong systems fundamentals : storage, networking, OS, concurrency, and performance engineering.

2. Technical skills :

- Strong coding ability in Java and Python.

- Production experience with the surrounding stack : nginx, HAProxy, Redis, MySQL.

- Practical experience running workloads on GCP and Azure, and a working knowledge of AWS S3 (API semantics, consistency model, operational behavior).

- Experience with observability, capacity planning, and cost engineering at scale.

3. Leadership :

- A player-coach mindset - leading through clarity of technical vision, strong hiring, and high standards, not through distance from the work.

- Track record of building durable, inclusive teams and developing engineers into tech leads and managers.

- Excellent written and verbal communication.

- Calm and effective during incidents; thoughtful and structured afterward.

Nice to have :

- Experience building or operating an S3-compatible service, or contributions to an open-source storage system (Ceph, MinIO, SeaweedFS, HDFS, Cassandra, etc.).

- Experience with content-addressable storage, deduplication, encryption-at-rest, and compliance regimes (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR).

- Experience running multi-region, multi-cloud storage footprints and managing petabyte-scale migrations.

Benefits :

- Competitive salaries

- Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family

- Fully paid premiums for Term life insurance

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Flexible hours and PTO

- Gym and fitness reimbursement

- Childcare reimbursement

Equal Employment Opportunity :

At Egnyte, we celebrate our unique differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Our global Egnyte Employee Communities (EECs) support representation and inclusion across our diverse workplace. 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.

Benefits found in job post :

- Medical insurance

Requirements added by the job poster :

- 5+ years of work experience with Leading Development Teams

- 5+ years of work experience with Java