Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Search Platform

2 hours, 59 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox is a technology company that builds simple, powerful products for individuals and businesses. With over 700 million registered users worldwide, Dropbox offers file sync, sharing, online backup, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and more to st...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Build a next-generation in-house search platform for Dropbox Dash.
  • Design and implement a unified search experience across Dropbox Dash and Dropbox’s file and folder search.
  • Support lexical search, vector search, multi-modal search, Q&A, and recommendation use cases.
  • Build scalable indexing infrastructure that can handle trillions of documents.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and efficiency of search and indexing systems.
  • Expand the platform to support Dropbox’s global user base with a consistent experience worldwide.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex infrastructure and product challenges.
  • Participate in on-call rotations when assigned to the team.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience.
  • 9+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Proven experience building and managing large, multi-threaded, geographically distributed backend systems.
  • Proficiency in programming and debugging in Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
  • Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, databases, networks, and compilers is advantageous.
  • Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and solve open-ended problems.
  • Experience owning long-term projects and driving them through completion.
  • Ability to set medium- to long-term strategy for business-impacting projects.
  • Experience with search infrastructure tools such as ElasticSearch (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary of $202,700–$274,300 USD for US Zone 2.
  • Base salary of $180,200–$243,800 USD for US Zone 3.
  • Opportunity to work on products that impact millions of users.
  • Work on a visible engineering career framework that is publicly available.
  • Exposure to large-scale, globally distributed infrastructure challenges.

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