Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata Core @Dropbox

Overview

The role involves working as a Software Engineer on the Metadata team at Dropbox, focusing on building and operating large-scale distributed databases that support all Dropbox services. The position emphasizes developing core infrastructure that ensures fast and reliable data access for millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain distributed database systems for low-latency, strongly consistent data access.
• Implement and optimize replication, consensus, and caching mechanisms to achieve performance goals.
• Operate production systems and participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and data durability.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to support the development of a roadmap that meets business needs.
• Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience in building database platforms, distributed databases, or large-scale database 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.
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams.

Benefits

Compensation in Poland is between 272,000 zł and 368,000 zł PLN.

Location

Remote - Poland

How to Apply

For application details, please refer to the company’s careers page.