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Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata Core

Software Engineer • Mid-level • Remote • Full-time Poland Poland

Infrastructure Software Engineer on Dropbox's Metadata team, building and operating the large-scale distributed databases that power every Dropbox service.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain distributed database systems providing low-latency, strongly consistent data access
  • Implement and optimize replication, consensus and caching mechanisms to meet availability and performance goals
  • Operate production systems, including participating in on-call rotation, ensuring high availability and data durability
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to assess current and future use cases and shape the roadmap
  • Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems and reliability improvements
  • Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems
  • Occasionally participate in on-call work to address bugs, outages or other operational issues

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency, partitioning and fault tolerance
  • Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems 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

Nice to have

  • Experience building distributed databases or storage systems
  • Practical experience with data structures used in storage systems (e.g. LSM trees, B-trees, hash indexes)
  • Experience operating database systems (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra)
  • Experience with distributed caching, custom-built or open source (e.g. Memcached, Redis)
  • Experience improving reliability and performance in high-scale data systems
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams to identify future needs and incorporate them into the roadmap
  • Interest in deepening distributed systems expertise and growing into broader technical leadership

Soft skills

Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teamsStrong debugging and performance analysis skills

What we offer

  • Poland pay range: 272,000-368,000 zł PLN

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