# Infrastructure Software Engineer

**Company:** [Dropbox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dropbox)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** PLN272k – PLN368k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, C/C++, Java, Operating Systems, Filesystems, Databases, Computer Networks, Compilers, Semaphores, Mutexes, Distributed Systems, Multithreading
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**.

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