Infrastructure Software Engineer
Build and operate large-scale, geographically distributed infrastructure supporting massive file metadata, data volumes, analytics, and concurrent connections. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience and expertise in backend systems, programming, operating systems, and distributed infrastructure.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure capable of managing metadata for hundreds of billions of files, handling hundreds of petabytes of user data, and facilitating millions of concurrent connections.
- Expand Dropbox's role as a data fabric linking applications, devices, and services worldwide, while improving interoperability and adaptability across ecosystems.
- Measure and optimize Dropbox's analytics platform for extracting insights from vast data volumes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the performance, reliability, and security of Dropbox's infrastructure.
- Participate in occasional on-call work to address bugs, outages, and other operational issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree 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, 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.
- Ability to independently execute assigned tasks.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with semaphores and mutexes.
Compensation
- Poland pay range: 272,000 zł–368,000 zł PLN.
Skills
Python, Go, C/C++, Java, Operating Systems, Filesystems, Databases, Computer Networks, Compilers, Semaphores, Mutexes, Distributed Systems, Multithreading
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