Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

This is a remote position.

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer to design and develop large-scale distributed backend infrastructure supporting global, data-intensive systems. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, performance, and security, with ownership of complex long-term technical projects and responsibility for influencing architecture and technical direction across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale infrastructure systems

• Build highly distributed backend platforms

• Work on infrastructure handling very large data volumes

• Improve scalability, performance and reliability

• Improve platform security

• Solve complex infrastructure and backend engineering problems

• Drive improvements across existing systems

• Own major technical projects from design through delivery

• Work across multiple engineering teams

• Influence technical decisions across projects

• Define technical approaches for complex problems

• Support medium and long term technical direction

• Develop and debug production software

• Support production environments when required

Requirements

• Minimum 9 years professional software development experience

• Strong backend or infrastructure software engineering

• Large scale distributed systems

• Multithreaded systems

• Geographically distributed backend systems

• Strong programming in Python, Go, C++, C or Java

• Strong debugging capability

• Experience with operating systems, databases and networks

• Ability to independently own complex technical projects

• Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements

• Strong technical problem solving

• Experience influencing technical direction

• Dropbox specifically expects this level to take ownership of long term projects and contribute to medium to long term strategy for business impacting technical initiatives.

• Nice to have**

• Experience defining technical roadmaps

• Go or C++

• Operating system internals

• Filesystems

• Database internals

• Networking

• Compilers

• Global scale product infrastructure

• Technical leadership experience

• High scale storage or data platforms

Benefits

• Fully remote working model

• Solid, competitive salary

• Work in a multinational environment on international projects

• Comprehensive healthcare

• Long-term B2B contract with a stable project pipeline