Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Platform

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Re-architect Identity systems and contribute to large scale distributed systems design to support Dropbox's transition into a multi-product company.

Role Description

Dropbox is on a journey to becoming a multi-product company, either through acquisitions or through building net new products from the ground up. Identity platform and services need to evolve to enable this strategic shift from single product to multi-product. In this role, you will re-architect the Identity systems to enable Dropbox’s success as a multi-product company. You will contribute to large scale distributed systems design, API design, phased data migrations, persistent storage design and other foundational work that not only helps to develop the Identity Platform services at scale but also lends itself for ease of operations.

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Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to a strong, well respected team, augmenting it on the more senior side.
  • Collaborate with product engineering and internal teams which depend on Identity to implement their wide spanning use cases. Communication and collaboration is very important to be able to work with our dependent teams across the company.
  • Have a bias for action and deliver work of high quality.
  • Mentor more junior engineers on the team and be a partner to your EM in building a successful team.
  • Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive culture, championing team members and upholding our company values.
  • Ensure software and architecture excellence through quality feedback, risk mitigation, and alignment with technical strategy and business goals.

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience working with and supporting high QPS platform services running in production.
  • Experience in executing on a system-focused roadmap for a major distributed system at scale and leading its phased implementation.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Infra SWE Experience.
  • Prior experience with Identity & Auth concepts like OAuth, SSO, OIDC, SAML, MFA, RBAC.
  • Prior experience with Python and GoLang.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$177,500$240,100 USD
US Zone 3
$157,800$213,400 USD

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...

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