Role Description
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As a Corporate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Dropbox, you will help lead the infrastructure strategy and technical direction of one of the most innovative technology companies globally. Successful candidates will possess a growth mindset, strong accountability and be passionate about designing, building, and securing scalable infrastructure services in a dynamic environment. You will drive improvement projects in automation and observability and effectively handle incidents that arise in a prompt but measured way. In this role, you'll serve as a technical lead of programs related to monitoring, metrics, alerting and reliability throughout the IT Services organization, and contribute to the evolution of our world-class infrastructure while ensuring utmost security and scalability.
Our Engineering Career Framework is [viewable by anyone outside the company](https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/) 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](https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world).
Responsibilities
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* Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Dropbox's infrastructure and services
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response
* Build, Implement and maintain automations & infrastructure-as-code tooling, specifically Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions as well as custom code platforms
* Utilize container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Red Hat Openshift, to manage containers at scale
* Manage and optimize monitoring and logging pipelines using tools like Datadog and Cribl LogStream
* Drive improvement projects related to service health and visibility for our stakeholders, ranging from developers to business service owners to C-level
* Develop and maintain custom tooling and automation scripts in Bash, Python and other scripting languages
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
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* 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or a similar engineering roles with hands-on coding experience
* Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, R53, Lambda, and others
* Strong knowledge of Linux administration, internals, filesystems, volume management and specific distro's such as Ubuntu, RHEL, DNS, DHCP
* Experience with monitoring and logging tools, Datadog and logging pipeline tools such as Vector or Cribl LogStream
* Experience driving one or more transformational programs related to metrics and observability
* Experience with scripting in a higher level language (Python preferred)
* Experience developing automation to solve infrastructure-related tasks with tools such as Chef/Ansible/Terraform
* Experience with log analysis and building metrics, alerts and visuals from log data
* Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform
* Strong Proficiency in Config Management tools specifically Ansible Automation Platform and Chef
* Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
* Knowledge of LDAP, REST API's and current Auth
* Familiarity with GitHub and Git-based workflows
* Understanding of RDS databases and network security technologies, such as WAF
* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
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* Experience managing large-scale multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure.
* Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps workflows.
* Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless platforms.
* Proven track record improving observability, reliability, and incident response.
* Understanding of compliance and security frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).
* Experience implementing Zero Trust security and access models.