Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata Core
Build and operate mission-critical distributed database infrastructure for Dropbox’s metadata systems, focusing on consistency, replication, caching, reliability, and performance. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and strong systems programming expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain distributed database systems providing low-latency, strongly consistent data access.
- Implement and optimize replication, consensus, and caching mechanisms to meet availability and performance goals.
- Operate production systems, including participating in the on-call rotation, ensuring high availability and data durability.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to assess current and future use cases and requirements, supporting a mid- to long-term roadmap.
- Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
- Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems.
- Occasionally participate in on-call work to address bugs, outages, or other operational issues.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including replication, consistency, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
- Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems, or large-scale database infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems languages.
- Familiarity with consensus and coordination systems such as Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, and etcd.
- Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations.
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building distributed databases or storage systems.
- Practical experience with data structures used in storage systems, including LSM trees, B-trees, and hash indexes.
- Experience operating database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra.
- Experience with distributed caching, including Memcached or Redis.
- Experience improving reliability and performance in high-scale data systems.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to understand use cases, identify future needs, and incorporate them into a team roadmap.
- Interest in deepening distributed systems expertise and expanding technical leadership.
Compensation
- Poland pay range: 272,000 zł–368,000 zł PLN.
Skills
Go, Rust, C++, Distributed Systems, Distributed Databases, Database Infrastructure, Replication, Consensus Algorithms, Raft, Paxos, Zookeeper, Etcd, Caching, MySQL, Postgres
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