Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata

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Dropbox

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Cloud Storage • Enterprise • Productivity

Dropbox is a cloud-based service that provides tools for storing, sharing, and accessing files across devices. It offers features such as document sharing, video review, automatic backups, and AI-driven scheduling. Dropbox also provides solutions for different sectors like teams, sales, marketing, and education, and industries including construction, media, technology, and manufacturing. With a focus on security, Dropbox ensures files are encrypted and protected against tampering. It offers integrations with various productivity tools and is trusted by major companies for efficient file management and collaboration.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

🏢 Enterprise

⚡ Productivity

📋 Description

• Design and maintain distributed database systems providing low-latency, strongly consistent data access. • Implement and optimize replication, consensus, and caching mechanisms to meet availability and performance goals. • Operate production systems, including participating in the on-call rotation, ensuring high availability and data durability. • Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to assess current and future use cases and requirements, supporting the development of a mid- to long-term roadmap that reflects these needs. • Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements. • Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing software using distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency, partitioning, and fault tolerance. • Experience building databases, storage systems, or large scale data infrastructure. • Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++ or similar systems languages. • Familiarity with consensus and coordination systems (e.g. Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, etcd). • Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations. • Strong debugging and performance analysis skills. • Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role is not available in Zone 1 • US Zone 2 • US Zone 3