Principal Engineer, Thrissur

Position :Principal Engineer Location : Remote 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 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: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. ABOUT THE ROLE Egnyte 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.WHAT YOU’LL DO: Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient Effectively communicatecomplex design and architecture detailsUnderstand 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 monitoringQualifications BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with history of technical innovation Experience providing technical leadership to engineers Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)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 systemsExpertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired BENEFITS Competitive salaries Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family Fully paid premiums for life insurance Flexible hours and PTO Gym reimbursementChildcare reimbursement Group term life insurance COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION: At 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.