Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Storage Core
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DropboxCloud Storage
Remote - US: Select locationsFull-TimeSenior
Salary180,200 - 274,300 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 9+ years
- Required Skills
- C++GoRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 9+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including replication, consistency, and fault tolerance.
- Experience developing and debugging production services in C++, Go, or Rust.
- Familiarity with distributed storage systems, file systems, or data infrastructure at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code in mission-critical environments.
- Experience troubleshooting complex systems and participating in on-call or operational rotations.
- Solid communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across infrastructure and product teams.
- Eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to multi-year infrastructure evolution initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain large-scale distributed storage systems that ensure data durability, availability, and performance.
- Collaborate with peers to evolve the architecture of Dropbox’s core storage infrastructure for improved scalability and efficiency.
- Contribute to the design of replication, erasure coding, and system lifecycle management systems that balance cost, reliability, and performance.
- Write high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in Go and Rust.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, gaining firsthand experience operating Dropbox’s production storage systems.
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues, performing root cause analysis and driving continuous reliability improvements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Networking, Hardware, Capacity Planning) to deliver end-to-end reliable and cost-efficient storage solutions.
- Take ownership of scoped projects and demonstrate growth toward leading larger, cross-team technical initiatives.
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