Description
As a Senior 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.
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.
We're looking for a seasoned engineer to join our team and help us build a next-generation search platform that powers Dropbox Dash - AI-powered search for work. You'll design and implement a singular search platform that integrates search for Dropbox Dash with Dropbox's file and folder search, delivering a seamless and cohesive user experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building a highly scalable in-house search platform to power Dropbox Dash - AI-powered search for work
- Unifying search experiences across different product lines
- Supporting diverse search use cases, including lexical search, vector search, multi-modal search, Q&A, and recommendations
- Scaling the indexing platform to handle trillions of documents while ensuring performance, reliability, and efficiency
- Driving international expansion to support Dropbox's growing global user base
If you're passionate about building scalable, reliable systems and have a proven track record of constructing and managing expansive, multi-threaded, geographically dispersed backend systems, we'd love to hear from you.
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 a range of languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java
- Extensive experience working with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers considered advantageous
- Ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguous situations, showcasing adaptability and open-ended problem solving
- Capable of taking ownership of long-term projects and seeing them through to completion
- Ability to set medium-to-long term strategy for business-impacting projects
Preferred qualifications include experience working with Search Infrastructure tools such as ElasticSearch.
Compensation: $190,400-$257,600 CAD