Who you are

• 8+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including replication, consistency, and fault tolerance
• Experience developing and debugging production services in C++, Go, or Rust
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems, file systems, or data infrastructure at scale
• Demonstrated ability to write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code in mission-critical environments
• Experience troubleshooting complex systems and participating in on-call or operational rotations
• Solid communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across infrastructure and product teams
• Eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to multi-year infrastructure evolution initiatives
• Experience building and operating large-scale object storage or distributed storage systems (e.g. S3, Ceph, GFS/Colossus)
• Deep interest in systems performance, profiling, and low-level optimization
• Familiarity with replication protocols, erasure coding, and data placement algorithms
• Experience with production monitoring, observability, and incident response workflows
• Contributions to infrastructure projects, open-source systems, or developer tooling that improved reliability and performance

What the job involves

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Storage team, you will help design, build, and operate Dropbox’s large-scale storage systems that provide high durability and scalability for millions of users across all of Dropbox products
• The Storage team owns the distributed storage infrastructure at the heart of Dropbox, systems responsible for storing exabytes of user data across multiple data centers worldwide
• You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers across infrastructure and product teams to improve reliability, optimize performance, and evolve the architecture of Dropbox’s storage layer
• This role offers deep exposure to distributed systems and storage challenges such as replication, erasure coding, consistency tradeoffs, and performance tuning at massive scale
• It’s an ideal opportunity for engineers who love building resilient infrastructure, learning from complex production systems, and growing into technical leadership
• You’ll gain hands-on experience operating mission-critical services, influence architectural decisions, and directly improve how Dropbox keeps user data safe, durable, and available
• Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels
• Design, implement, and maintain large-scale distributed storage systems that ensure data durability, availability, and performance
• Collaborate with peers to evolve the architecture of Dropbox’s core storage infrastructure for improved scalability and efficiency
• Contribute to the design of replication, erasure coding, and system lifecycle management systems that balance cost, reliability, and performance
• Write high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in Go and Rust
• Participate in the on-call rotation, gaining firsthand experience operating Dropbox’s production storage systems
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, performing root cause analysis and driving continuous reliability improvements
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Networking, Hardware, Capacity Planning) to deliver end-to-end reliable and cost-efficient storage solutions
• Take ownership of scoped projects and demonstrate growth toward leading larger, cross-team technical initiatives
• 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

Benefits

• On-site fitness and meditation classes
• Commuter subsidies
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
• 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
• 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