Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer
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Summary
Senior engineer who designs and develops large-scale distributed backend infrastructure, improving scalability, reliability, performance and security while owning long-term technical projects across teams. Core stack: Python, Go, C++, C or Java, with deep OS, database and networking knowledge. Fully remote on a B2B contract.
This is a remote position.
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer to design and develop large-scale distributed backend infrastructure supporting global, data-intensive systems. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, performance, and security, with ownership of complex long-term technical projects and responsibility for influencing architecture and technical direction across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
• Design and develop large scale infrastructure systems
• Build highly distributed backend platforms
• Work on infrastructure handling very large data volumes
• Improve scalability, performance and reliability
• Improve platform security
• Solve complex infrastructure and backend engineering problems
• Drive improvements across existing systems
• Own major technical projects from design through delivery
• Work across multiple engineering teams
• Influence technical decisions across projects
• Define technical approaches for complex problems
• Support medium and long term technical direction
• Develop and debug production software
• Support production environments when required
Requirements
• Minimum 9 years professional software development experience
• Strong backend or infrastructure software engineering
• Large scale distributed systems
• Multithreaded systems
• Geographically distributed backend systems
• Strong programming in Python, Go, C++, C or Java
• Strong debugging capability
• Experience with operating systems, databases and networks
• Ability to independently own complex technical projects
• Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements
• Strong technical problem solving
• Experience influencing technical direction
Dropbox specifically expects this level to take ownership of long term projects and contribute to medium to long term strategy for business impacting technical initiatives.
Nice to have
• Experience defining technical roadmaps
• Go or C++
• Operating system internals
• Filesystems
• Database internals
• Networking
• Compilers
• Global scale product infrastructure
• Technical leadership experience
• High scale storage or data platforms
Benefits
• Fully remote working model
• Solid, competitive salary
• Work in a multinational environment on international projects
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Long-term B2B contract with a stable project pipeline
