Senior Software Engineer - Go

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 23,000 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:

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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 23,000 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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our customers trust us to move tens of millions of files and petabytes of data from on-premises file servers, network shares and other cloud storage providers into Egnyte. Thedata has to arrive intact, with permissions preserved, inside tight cut-over windows, oftenfrom offices on several continents at once.We're looking for a senior engineer to own the technical direction of our migration platform. It has three parts:

• lightweight agents that run on customer machines and do the copying
• a cloud control plane that schedules and monitors those agents
• the cloud-to-cloud migration services that connect us to other storage platforms 

You'll set the architecture, take on the hardest reliability and performance problems, and raise the engineering bar across the team. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Own the architecture of the migration agents, control plane and cloud-to-cloud services. Set direction on scaling, fault tolerance and multi-region deployment, and write the design docs others build from.
• Make large migrations fast and predictable. Improve throughput across long-distance, high-latency links. Tune concurrency, chunking and retries. Make sure a migration with millions of files finishes on schedule.
• Guarantee data integrity. Design end-to-end checks (checksums, validation passes, reconciliation reports) so customers can prove every file and permission arrived correctly.
• Build resilience into every layer. Handle throttling, gateway timeouts, flaky customer networks and unstable third-party storage gracefully, with safe retries and no duplicates or data loss.
• Run it like a production service. Drive observability (structured logs, metrics, alerting) for agents spread across thousands of customer environments. Lead incident investigations and turn post-mortem findings into lasting fixes.
• Shape how we ship. Improve release safety for software installed on customer machines (staged rollouts, version compatibility, upgrades), and for the control plane on Kubernetes with GitOps.
• Partner across functions with Product, Professional Services and Support to turn real migration problems into roadmap priorities. Be the senior technical voice on escalations involving our largest customers.
• Multiply the team through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring and clear technical writing.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years building production software, including several years owning the design of distributed systems or data-intensive services.
• Strong in Go, Intermediate in Java (or another systems language such as Python, plus willingness to work mainly in Go).
• Deep understanding of file systems and storage: SMB/NFS shares, object storage (S3, Azure Blob/Files, GCS), metadata, permissions/ACLs, and why moving files at scale is hard.
• Hands-on experience making systems reliable over unreliable networks:retries, timeouts, backpressure, rate limiting, idempotency and long-running resumable jobs.
• Experience running services on Kubernetes in a major cloud (GCP, Azure or AWS), with solid habits around observability and incident response.
• A track record of leading technical work across teams: writing designs, driving decisions, and delivering complex projects to production.
• Clear communication with engineers, customers and leadership alike.

• Experience with large-scale data migration, backup or sync products, or with tools like rclone.
• Experience shipping software that runs on customer machines (Windows services, installers, auto-update, edge appliances).
• Experience integrating with cloud content platforms' APIs (SharePoint/OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive), including their throttling and pagination.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud or customer-owned-storage setups.
• Experience applying AI/LLM tooling to operations: log triage, automated diagnostics, support automation.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salaries
• Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family
• Fully paid premiums for life insurance
• Flexible hours and PTO
• Gym reimbursement
• Childcare reimbursement
• Group term life insurance

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.

Any employees with questions or concerns about equal employment opportunities in the workplace are encouraged to bring these issues to the attention of [email protected]. Egnyte will not allow any form of retaliation against employees who raise issues of equal employment opportunity. If employees feel they have been subjected to any such retaliation, they should contact [email protected]. To ensure the workplace is free of artificial barriers, violation of this policy including any improper retaliatory conduct will lead to discipline, up to and including discharge. All employees must cooperate with all investigations conducted pursuant to this policy.