Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Company Description

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Role Description

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer on our Connector Platform team for Dropbox Dash, your role will be crucial in shaping and constructing the robust systems that not only support Dash, but also lay the groundwork for the next wave of engineering innovations. From optimizing user experiences across various projects to ensuring seamless scalability and data integrity, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the technological backbone of our platform. In this role, you will act as the team lead on large-scale distributed systems, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance. Operating in a 0→1 environment, you will contribute to defining and building the next generation of AI-driven experiences at Dropbox.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will also leverage your extensive expertise to tackle audacious challenges and push the boundaries of what's possible. Your contributions will directly impact millions of users, as every line of code you write furthers our mission to revolutionize the way people work and collaborate. 

Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the vision for large, business-impacting projects amidst multiple constraints, ensuring successful outcomes through strategic planning and effective execution.

• Demonstrate a proactive drive to develop innovative solutions for complex problems, fostering a culture of creativity and problem-solving within the team.

• Push boundaries to leverage industry best practices and customer feedback to generate and implement breakthrough ideas that aim to create new products or advance existing products and drive our tools forward.

• Leverage in-depth understanding of Dropbox’s business landscape, products, customers, and strategy to identify strategic opportunities for the team to support Dropbox in achieving its business objectives.

• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions for AI-powered applications.

• Design and implement algorithms to optimize data ingestion, manage third-party rate limits, and enhance sync throughput and performance.

• Develop and enhance platform capabilities to accelerate the creation and deployment of third-party integrations.

• Improve critical metrics such as sync success rate, throughput, data completeness, and freshness to ensure a high-quality user experience.

• Empower enterprise customers to build custom connectors by leveraging indexing APIs and tailored connector capabilities.

• Contribute to a collaborative team environment by participating in code reviews, sharing knowledge, and mentoring junior engineers to promote growth and excellence.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience

• 10+ 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 a range of languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java

• Advanced knowledge of operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers.

• Ability to define and deliver multi-year, multi-team product or platform goals

• Proficient in setting technical strategy to broader initiatives across Engineering, Product, and Design teams

• 10+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer, with a focus on delivering scalable and reliable solutions.

• Strong expertise in backend development technologies such as Golang and Python.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams and effectively presenting technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Capable of articulating, conceptualizing, and defining comprehensive strategies

• Exhibits a very high standard of technical judgement, innovation and execution to tackle open-ended problems that require difficult prioritization.

• Experience with building third party app integrations.

• Familiarity in frontend frameworks like React.

Compensation

Dropbox applies increased tax deductible costs to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an “author”) for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.

Poland Annual Pay Range

368 900 zł — 499 100 zł

The range listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change. Salary is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*

• Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**

• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh

• Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance*

• Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance*

• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more

• Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support

• Mental health and wellness benefits

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

• Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided

• Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.