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Infrastructure Software Engineer

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in Poland
213K-347K
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in Poland
213K-347K
Mid level
You'll build infrastructure to manage massive data while enhancing reliability and performance. Collaborate with teams to innovate solutions and maintain system stability.
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Role Description

As an Infrastructure Engineer, your role will be crucial in shaping and constructing the robust systems that not only support our current flagship products 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.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll leverage your 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.

Join us in redefining the future, where your passion for building scalable, reliable systems will drive meaningful change on a global scale.

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
  • 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.
  • Assist in expanding Dropbox's role as the data-fabric, linking hundreds of millions of applications, devices, and services worldwide, while spearheading efforts to improve interoperability and adaptability across various ecosystems.
  • Measure and optimize Dropbox's analytics platform to maintain its status as one of the most advanced in the industry for extracting meaningful insights from vast data volumes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and implement solutions that enhance the performance, reliability, and security of Dropbox's infrastructure, ensuring a seamless experience for users worldwide.

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
  • 2+ years of professional software development experience
  • Demonstrated experience in building and managing large-scale, multi-threaded, and geographically distributed backend systems
  • Proficient in programming and debugging across a range of languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java
  • Experience working with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers
  • Ability to independently execute tasks at hand
Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with Semaphores and Mutexes 
Compensation

At Dropbox, we strive to be a great place for all Dropboxers to grow and be recognized for that growth. This job posting reflects broad requirements, and represents two potential levels of role. Through our assessment process, we will identify your level that ties to compensation based on your experience and technical expertise along with the scope of the role. 

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.

If you are assessed at the IC2 level, below are the current Salary/OTE ranges (Subject to change):

212,500 zł — 287,500 zł PLN

If you are assessed at the IC3 level, below are the current Salary/OTE ranges (Subject to change):

256,700 zł- — 347,300 zł PLN

Top Skills

C/C++
Go
Java
Python

Dropbox Colorado, USA Office

CO, United States

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