Infrastructure Software Engineer, Dropbox
Data Platform
$134.6-204.9k
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building production systems
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java or C#)
- Familiarity with batch and/or streaming data systems concepts (e.g., scheduling, backfills, schema evolution, late data, idempotency)
- Experience debugging and operating production services using logs/metrics and incident response practices
Desirable
- Experience with big data tooling such as Spark/SparkSQL, Kafka, Hive, Airflow, or Superset
- Experience with Databricks or other big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Experience with large-scale data lake storage systems and/or table formats (e.g., lakehouse patterns, schema evolution, partitioning)
What the job involves
- Join Dropbox’s Data Platform team to build and evolve the core infrastructure that powers customer analytics, experimentation, and data-driven product decisions across the company
- You’ll work on high-scale systems for data ingestion, storage, processing, and platform reliability, collaborating closely with staff engineers and partner teams that produce and consume data
- This role offers hands-on ownership of critical platform components at massive scale: data lake storage: 60+ PB, streaming: 10+ million events/sec, distributed processing: 200K+ job executions/day
- You’ll contribute to a major platform modernization effort, including migrating the data lake to new underlying data formats, re-architecting high-scale ingestion patterns, and building mechanisms that enable AI/ML use cases on top of the data lake
- Build and maintain platform capabilities that enable reliable ingestion, storage, and processing of customer and product data at scale
- Contribute to petabyte-scale data lake modernization, including migration to new underlying storage/table formats
- Develop platform features to support AI/ML workflows and enable leveraging AI on top of the data lake
- Partner with engineering teams across Dropbox to integrate with the customer data platform and improve usability and adoption
- Participate in an on-call rotation and help define operational standards for platform services
- 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.4m
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
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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