Senior Software Engineer - Go

Egnyte; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Health insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Egnyte is seeking an experienced software leader to own the technical direction of a platform that migrates large volumes of files from customer systems and other storage services into a cloud content environment. You will design transfer agents, a cloud control plane, and services connecting to external storage, focusing on data integrity and reliable operation at scale.

You will set architecture for migration systems, improve throughput on high-latency links, and build end-to-end integrity

Qualifications

• Seven+ years building production software with distributed systems or data-intensive services.
• Strong Go skills and working knowledge of Java or another systems language with willingness to work in Go.
• Deep understanding of file systems, storage, metadata, and permissions including network shares and object storage.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture for transfer agents, control-plane services, and cloud-to-cloud migration systems; document designs for implementation.
• Improve throughput over high-latency links by tuning concurrency, chunking, and retry behavior.
• Build end-to-end integrity checks that verify files, permissions, and migration results.
• Make long-running jobs resilient to throttling, timeouts, unstable networks, and third-party service failures.
• Improve observability and release safety, lead incident investigations, and turn findings into durable fixes.
• Work with product, services, and support teams on customer needs; mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Java

Leadership

Communication

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Role overview

Own the technical direction of a platform that moves large volumes of files from customer systems and other storage services into a cloud content environment. The role covers customer-installed transfer agents, a cloud control plane, and services that connect to external storage, with a focus on data integrity, predictable completion, and reliable operation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture for transfer agents, control-plane services, and cloud-to-cloud migration systems; document designs for implementation.
• Improve throughput over high-latency links by tuning concurrency, chunking, and retry behavior.
• Build end-to-end integrity checks that verify files, permissions, and migration results.
• Make long-running jobs resilient to throttling, timeouts, unstable networks, and third-party service failures.
• Improve observability and release safety, lead incident investigations, and turn findings into durable fixes.
• Work with product, services, and support teams on customer needs; mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.

Requirements

• At least seven years building production software, including several years designing distributed systems or data-intensive services.
• Strong Go skills and working knowledge of Java or another systems language, with willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Deep understanding of file systems, storage, metadata, and permissions, including network shares and object storage.
• Practical experience with retries, timeouts, backpressure, rate limits, idempotency, and resumable jobs over unreliable networks.
• Experience operating Kubernetes services in a major cloud, with strong observability and incident-response practices.
• A record of leading technical work across teams and communicating clearly with engineers, customers, and leaders.

Nice to have

• Background in large-scale migration, backup, or synchronization products; customer-installed software; or cloud content APIs.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud or customer-owned storage, or applying AI tools to operational support.

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible hours and paid time off, healthcare for employees and families, and paid life-insurance premiums.
• Gym and childcare reimbursements are offered.