2 months ago
Remote, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain distributed database systems providing low-latency, strongly consistent data access.
- Implement and optimize replication, consensus, and caching mechanisms for availability and performance.
- Operate production systems, participate in occasional on-call rotations, and maintain high availability and data durability.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product teams to assess requirements and develop a mid- to long-term roadmap.
- Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
- Write high-quality, efficient Go and Rust code for performance-critical systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong distributed systems expertise, including replication, consistency, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
- Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems, or large-scale database infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems languages.
- Familiarity with consensus and coordination systems such as Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, or etcd.
- Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations.
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.
- Preferred experience with distributed databases or storage systems, storage data structures, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Memcached, Redis, and high-scale reliability and performance improvements.
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.