Infrastructure Software Engineer

Role Description

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and constructing the robust systems that support our current flagship products and lay the groundwork for the next wave of engineering innovations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to tackle challenges and push the boundaries of what's possible. Your contributions will directly impact millions of users.

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.
• Measure and optimize Dropbox's analytics platform to maintain its status as one of the most advanced in the industry.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and implement solutions that enhance the performance, reliability, and security of Dropbox's infrastructure.
• On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding.
• 5+ 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Semaphores and Mutexes