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Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Smart Storage Management

Remote

TLDR

Lead the multi-year strategy for storage visibility and efficiency, influencing architecture and experiences while mentoring senior engineers in a leadership capacity.

Role Description

As an Staff Software Engineer on the Smart Storage Management team, you’ll define and drive the multi-year strategy that gives admins and users clear storage visibility and control while improving Dropbox’s storage efficiency and cost posture. You will lead architecture and execution across admin console and user-facing surfaces for restoration, cleanup, and reclamation workflows, partnering across teams to deliver cohesive experiences and high-reliability systems. This role is leadership/architecture-weighted (not code-heavy) and offers substantial senior-leadership exposure. You will set the multi-year, multi-team technical strategy and deliver it through direct implementation or broad technical leadership.

Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the multi-team storage strategy across with measurable outcomes.
  • Lead architecture for with strong safeguards and observability.
  • Make high-judgment trade-offs across customer experience, compliance, cost, and operational risk; drive org-wide alignment.
  • Raise reliability/quality bars (SLO/SLI ownership, validation frameworks, backfill/idempotency, rollout/rollback).
  • Mentor senior engineers; model high-signal design reviews and effective cross-team influence.
  • Lead incident posture and prevention; own learning loops and durable fixes.
  • Partner with PM/Design to set, instrument, and communicate goals.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

Requirements

  • 12+ years building/operating distributed systems; 3+ years leading multi-team initiatives at Staff scope.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep expertise in front-end (JavaScript, React, Angular, HTML/CSS) and back-end (Node.js, Python) development.
  • Extensive experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
  • Expert system/architecture design (pipelines/queues, data modeling, idempotency, backfills, failure recovery, safeguards).
  • Proven cross-org influence and decision-making optimized for the broader org.
  • Operational excellence: own SLO/SLIs, lead incidents, prevent recurrence.
  • High-altitude communication and stakeholder management; crisp narratives when needed.
  • Models responsible AI tool use (validate edge cases/legacy systems).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Led multi-quarter strategies with measurable cost or Customer Experience outcomes.
  • Comfortable partnering with eng teams without being code-heavy.
  • Data platform familiarity (e.g., large-scale validation, Spark/Databricks POCs).

Compensation

Poland Pay Range
391 000 zł—529 000 zł PLN
Dropbox

Dropbox builds innovative tools for file syncing, sharing, and collaboration aimed at both individuals and businesses. With a vast user base, it enables seamless remote work, enhancing productivity through an intuitive interface and powerful cloud storage solutions. What sets Dropbox apart is its commitment to creating a flexible work environment while advancing an AI-first strategy.

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391 000 zł – 529 000 zł per year
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