Company Description

　　Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We're looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn't it be great if our working environment-and the tools we use-were designed with people's actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent-if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots.The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history.Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you'll join us on the journey.

　　Team Description

　　Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They're building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

　　Role Description

　　The Dropbox team is growing, and we're looking for a Staff Engineer to help shape the architecture and services that power one of Dropbox's newest AI offerings, Dash. Our team culture rewards a bias for action, engineering partnership in defining the product, and discipline in how we develop. You'll thrive in our team if you love chasing impact, working through ambiguity, and creating a culture of innovation. Dash is one of the fastest growing products at Dropbox and we need an extraordinary technical leader to scale the great work we are already doing and to diversify our efforts to continue to grow the business.

　　The work will involve defining the large scale, low latency architecture that supports multiple products which touch hundreds of millions of people and a lot of data. These services support product features like search, personalization and other solutions for fragmentation of Data. The architecture handles complex use cases of several ml-based features and large scale data ingestion, preprocessing, enrichment, and knowledge extraction, indexing, and Dash's backend APIs. On top of this foundation, we're crafting products that enable people to do amazing things with their stuff across all their devices. We hope you'll join us!

　　Responsibilities

　　You will build infrastructure to handle metadata for hundreds of billions of files, hundreds of petabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connectionsYou will build delightful products and experiences for millions, while working alongside an excellent, multi-functional team across Engineering, Product and DesignYou will help craft the direction of building capabilities for Dropbox DashYou will scale Dropbox as the data-fabric which connects hundreds of millions of the world's apps, devices, and servicesYou will measure and optimize as Dropbox continues to build one of the industry's most advanced analytics platforms to derive meaning from vast amounts of data

　　Requirements

　　BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience10+ years of professional software development experienceExtensive experience building and owning large-scale, multi-threaded, geographically distributed backend systemsHighly skilled at developing and debugging in C/C++, Java, or GoKnowledge of Python a plusExperience with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, network, compiler also a plusDemonstrated skill developing low latency and fault tolerant architecture Strong communication skills and a demonstrated passion for helping others leverage machine learningProven software engineering skills across multiple languages

　　Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, 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.

　　Total Rewards

　　Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what's expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

　　Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

　　Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

　　Current Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):

　　• US Zone 1: $229,500 - $270,000 - $310,500.

　　• US Zone 2: $206,600 - $243,000 - $279,500.

　　• US Zone 3: $183,600 - $216,000 - $248,400.

　　Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee's remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:

　　• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro

　　• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro) and Washington DC metro

　　• US Zone 3: All other US locations

　　Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).