Dropbox is looking to solve the problem of building and operating large-scale distributed databases that meet stringent requirements for latency, durability, and transactional consistency to support its services and millions of users.
Requirements
- 8+ 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
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
- All engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment.
- Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.
- Interest in deepening distributed systems expertise and expanding technical leadership.
