Site Reliability Engineer, Dropbox

Fleet Automation

$130.9-199.3k

Actual salary range is dependent on location. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

AWS

GCP

Linux

Ansible

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Junior and Mid level

Remote from US

More information about location

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Smart workspace company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$130.9-199.3k

AWS

GCP

Linux

Ansible

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Junior and Mid level

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Company mission

Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
2+ years of industry experience
Demonstrated proficiency in software design and systems fluency, including understanding OS, networks, or hardware to debug system issues and identify bottlenecks
Experience with using monitoring tools to maintain reliability of production services
Experience working with Linux in a production environment
Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasks
Demonstrated skill developing distributed systems
Familiarity with fundamental services, such as DHCP, DNS, NTP, or PXE
Familiarity with config management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Desirable

Experience with cloud compute services, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
Enthusiastic about new initiatives, contributing to new ideas and approaches, experimenting with them, and sharing learned outcomes

What the job involves

Site Reliability Engineers on the Fleet Automation team are mission-critical for Dropbox success. The SRE team has major impact inside of Dropbox engineering from testing our disaster readiness and building our in-house multi-exabyte storage system, Magic Pocket. Check out the Dropbox Tech Blog to learn more!
The Site Reliability Team consists of hybrid systems and software engineers who are responsible and take ownership for management of large scale infrastructure while improving reliability and automation. SREs are integrated within the Platform team, and we're looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing infrastructure software, maintaining it, and scaling it. You will join a small, impactful team within Dropbox that significantly influences the world
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here
Build scalable infrastructure to manage metadata for hundreds of billions of files, hundreds of petabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connections
Design the systems and processes that Dropbox engineers use to manage and deploy their software into production
Automate the server provisioning process to reduce the labor of our networking engineering and datacenter operations teams. Once we plug a new server in, it walks itself through all aspects of provisioning to join the fleet without any human involvement
Own foundational services that serve as a core component of the fleet, such as DHCP, DNS, NTP, PXE
Build, test and keep the fleet up to date with the latest Operating System and Kernel
Own services that monitor the health of our fleet and host remediations
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying

Our take

Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.

Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.

The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

Trustpilot (1.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2014

$350m

SERIES C

Oct 2011

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $607.3m

Company benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year

Company HQ

Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Arash Ferdowsi

(CTO)

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

Drew Houston

(CEO)

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

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