4 hours ago
Remote, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure that manages metadata for hundreds of billions of files, hundreds of petabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connections.
- Expand Dropbox’s data-fabric capabilities across applications, devices, and services while improving interoperability and adaptability.
- Measure and optimize the analytics platform for extracting insights from large data volumes.
- Implement solutions that improve infrastructure performance, reliability, security, and user experience.
- Participate in occasional on-call work to address bugs, outages, and operational issues.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, such as physics or mathematics, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience building and managing large-scale, multi-threaded, geographically distributed backend systems.
- Proficiency programming and debugging in languages such as Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers.
- Ability to independently execute assigned tasks.
- Preferred: familiarity with semaphores and mutexes.
About Dropbox
Dropbox builds cloud storage, file sync, sharing, and collaboration tools for individuals and businesses, sold via subscriptions. Its portfolio includes Dropbox, Dropbox Sign for e‑signatures, and DocSend for document sharing and analytics. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, Dropbox is a public company on NASDAQ with more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries.