Dropbox is looking to build and operate large-scale distributed databases that are mission-critical for all its services, requiring stringent latency, durability, and transactional consistency. The company needs to design and evolve core infrastructure to manage these databases at scale, ensuring fast and reliable data access for millions of users and hundreds of internal services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing software using distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
- Experience building databases, storage systems, or large scale data infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++ or similar systems languages.
- Familiarity with consensus and coordination systems (e.g. Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, etcd).
- Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations.
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.
- Experience building distributed databases or storage systems.
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 the development of a mid- to long-term roadmap that reflects these needs.
- Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
- Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems.
Other
- Collaborate with engineers across Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure the metadata layer meets business needs and continues to scale with Dropbox’s growth.
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to understand their current use cases, identify future needs and requirements, and incorporate them into the team’s roadmap.
- Interest in deepening distributed systems expertise and expanding technical leadership.
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
