Job description
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 infrastructuresoftwareengineering
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
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.