Specialty
The role
Dropbox is hiring an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build the systems behind its products, including metadata for hundreds of billions of files and an analytics platform. Occasional on-call work is expected.
What you will do
- Build infrastructure that manages metadata for hundreds of billions of files and millions of concurrent connections
- Improve interoperability across the apps, devices and services that connect to Dropbox
- Measure and optimize the analytics platform
- Work with cross-functional teams on performance, reliability and security
- Take occasional on-call shifts for bugs and outages
What they ask for
- BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related coding field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software development
- Experience building large-scale, multi-threaded, geographically distributed backend systems
- Proficient in languages such as Python, Go, C/C++ or Java
- Experience with OS internals, filesystems, databases, networks and compilers
- Able to execute tasks independently
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