Role Description

As an Infrastructure Software Engineer on the Data Observability team, you will build and operate foundational systems that ensure the reliability, visibility, and governance of analytical data across Dropbox. This role is critical to maintaining trust in our data, enabling teams to ship features, understand product usage, and optimize performance with confidence.

You will work on data platform that supports analytics and machine learning pipelines at scale, with a focus on data quality monitoring, metadata management, and governance enforcement. Your work will help prevent data errors, reduce outages, and close compliance gaps across some of the largest and most complex data systems at Dropbox.

Partnering closely with engineers, data scientists, and product teams, you will tackle complex technical challenges and influence how data is produced, monitored, and consumed across the company. Your contributions will directly impact teams across Dropbox and help shape the future of how we manage and operate data at scale.

This is a foundational infrastructure role for engineers who are passionate about building scalable, reliable systems that power mission critical products and enable the next generation of data driven innovation.

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Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable data platform components to support analytics, governance, and AI/ML workloads across the enterprise.
• Collaborating closely with data engineering, data science, and ML teams to ensure data reliability and observability.
• Supporting data quality monitoring such as anomaly detection, freshness, and schema validation.
• Managing metadata including ownership, documentation, and classification.
• Enforcing compliance through retention policies and data contracts.
• Contributing to platform modernization and adoption of cutting-edge data tools.
• Supporting the reduction of data errors, outages, and compliance gaps to enable confident data-driven decisions.

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

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
• A BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven success in developing and deploying large-scale data pipelines or platforms focused on quality, governance, and reliability.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining ETL/ELT workflows, APIs, and integrations with cloud-based data systems.
• Ability to deliver end-to-end data platform features efficiently.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations if required by the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake or similar big data platforms.
• Experience with DataOps.
• Programming experience in Python and SQL.

Compensation

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Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team. Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.