Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

The role of Infrastructure Engineer at Dropbox involves building and optimizing scalable, reliable systems that support flagship products and future innovations, impacting millions of users worldwide.

Location: Remote - Poland

Salary: €333,200–€450,800 PLN

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure capable of managing metadata for hundreds of billions of files, handling hundreds of petabytes of user data, and facilitating millions of concurrent connections.
• Lead the expansion of Dropbox's function as the data-fabric, connecting applications, devices, and services globally, and drive interoperability and adaptability.
• Measure and optimize Dropbox's analytics platform to maintain industry-leading insights from vast data volumes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure performance, reliability, and security, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Proactively identify opportunities and drive improvements in current projects, advocating for and implementing changes that impact broader business initiatives.
• Navigate ambiguous situations with strategic thinking to steer projects successfully.
• Take ownership of long-term projects and see them through to completion.
• Set medium-to-long term strategies for impactful projects.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
• 9+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record constructing and managing expansive, multi-threaded, geographically dispersed backend systems.
• Proficient in programming and debugging across languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
• Extensive experience working with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers is advantageous.
• Ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguous situations, demonstrating adaptability and strategic thinking.
• Capable of taking ownership of long-term projects and seeing them through to completion.
• Ability to set medium-to-long term strategy for impactful projects.

Additional Information

• On-call work may be necessary occasionally to address bugs, outages, or operational issues.
• Dropbox's Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes expectations for engineers at each career level.