As a Staff Software Engineer focused on the Metadata Infrastructure organization, you will play a central role in shaping and evolving the transactional database systems that underpin nearly every Dropbox product. The Metadata Core and Metadata Services teams together operate foundational systems that manage Dropbox’s transactional metadata at global scale, powering workloads across storage, sync, sharing, AI, and collaboration features. You’ll be responsible for defining and executing the multi-year technical strategy for this critical infrastructure — spanning distributed consensus, replication, caching layers, and high-performance storage engines — while staying deeply engaged in solving today’s real-world reliability and scalability challenges. Your work will have broad, company-wide impact, driving architectural alignment, enabling new product capabilities, and directly improving the productivity of engineering teams across Dropbox. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy deep technical problem solving, and want to lead through influence while building resilient, developer-focused infrastructure. By joining this team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of metadata systems at Dropbox, gain exposure to senior leadership, and help set the technical culture for some of the most business-critical systems in the company.
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