Infrastructure Software Engineer, Data Platform
DropboxRemote - US: Select locationsPosted 24 February 2026
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<h2>Role Description</h2>
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<p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">Join Dropbox’s</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z"> Data Platform</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z"> team to build and evolve the core infrastructure that powers customer analytics, experimentation, and data-driven product decisions across the company. You’ll work on high-scale systems for </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">data ingestion, storage, processing, and platform reliability</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">, collaborating closely with staff engineers and partner teams that produce and consume data. </span></p>
<p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">This role offers hands-on ownership of critical platform components at massive scale: d</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">ata lake storage</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">: 60+ PB, s</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">treaming</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">: 10+ million events/sec, d</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">istributed processing</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">: 200K+ job executions/day. </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qoxwz83zyz74zz82zz71zz88zvz71zvz85zt0vxj50rkz73zz67zz90zz90zz82zz72zlblsz85z">You’ll contribute to a major platform modernization effort, including migrating the data lake to new underlying data formats, re-architecting high-scale ingestion patterns, and building mechanisms that enable AI/ML use cases on top of the data lake.</span></p>
<p><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z">Our Engineering Career Framework is </span><span class="attrlink url author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"><a class="attrlink" href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/" target="_blank" data-target-href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/"><u>viewable by anyone outside the company</u></a></span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"> and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more </span><span class="attrlink url author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"><a class="attrlink" href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world" target="_blank" data-target-href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world">here</a></span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78z ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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