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Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure capable of managing metadata for hundreds of billions of files, hundreds of petabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connections.
- Lead expansion of Dropbox’s data-fabric capabilities across applications, devices, and services worldwide.
- Improve interoperability and adaptability across diverse ecosystems.
- Measure and optimize the analytics platform for extracting insights from large data volumes.
- Develop solutions that improve infrastructure performance, reliability, and security.
- Identify opportunities, drive cross-team improvements, and influence broader business initiatives.
- Own long-term projects and set strategy for business-impacting work.
- Participate in occasional on-call work to address bugs, outages, and operational issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science or a related coding-intensive technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- 9+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proven experience constructing and managing large-scale, multithreaded, 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 is advantageous.
- Ability to work effectively through ambiguity and solve open-ended problems.
- Ability to own long-term projects through completion.
- Ability to set medium- to long-term strategy for business-impacting projects.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps for a team is preferred.
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