Senior Systems Engineer

Dropbox is one of the fastest growing startups on the Internet. We want to become the way the world stores and shares files, and we're well on our way.

We're looking for someone great to join our small, hardcore team that manages billions of files and petabytes of data for millions of users; someone who would take pride in the very high standards we set for availability and performance. Serious hacking chops, battle scars and prior end-of-the-line responsibility for large Linux-based deployments are all essential.

This is a salaried full-time position with benefits. There is a two-week paid trial period. Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Role & Responsibilities

• Keeping the Dropbox service up and running 24/7. First line of defense, on-call.
• Automating server and database migrations (writing appropriate scripts).
• Database maintenance.
• Improving security of the server back-end.
• Improving back-end monitoring systems and dashboards.
• Designing redundant systems.
• Experience provisioning server hardware.
• Working with our hosting provider to resolve service interruptions.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree (or demonstrated ability to bend spoons with mind)
  
• Excellent work ethic and attention to detail. Very organized.
• Enjoys hard problems.
• Fast learner.
• Experience supporting a fast-growing startup.
• Obsessive about uptime, security, correctness, redundancy.
• Previous 24/7 on-call experience.
• Experience firefighting service outages and working under pressure.
• Significant experience with a Debian-based environment. Super Linux hacker.
• Significant experience with MySQL v5.1
• Significant programming experience with C and/or Python.
• bash guru.
• Experience configuring firewalls with iptables.
• Familiar with the following technologies: Nagios, nginx, HAProxy, Munin, LVM, memcache, BIND.

Nice-to-Have's

• Experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience deploying colocation infrastructure.
• Experience configuring Cisco routers and switches.

About Dropbox

At Dropbox we’re revolutionizing the way that people think about and access their files. In particular, we make it easy to securely share files with other people, sync them across multiple computers, access them from anywhere, and keep them safe.

Dropbox is a tech startup based in San Francisco. We’re well-funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners (investors in Google and Facebook, respectively.) Since launching publicly a little over a year ago we’ve attracted several million users and are growing rapidly. We’ve been featured in publications like the New York Times and TechCrunch, and have won awards from places like PC Magazine.

Our passion is making a product that rocks and putting it in millions of people’s hands. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, interesting challenges, and a fun work environment. We’re looking for great people to join us.

If you think you’re up to the challenge, please submit your resume and a brief cover letter (1 paragraph max).