Site Reliability Engineer - Los Angeles, United States - Dropbox

Description

Role DescriptionSite Reliability Engineers are mission-critical for Dropbox success.

The SRE team has major impact inside of Dropbox engineering through optimizing web services and building our in-house multi-exabyte storage system, Magic Pocket.

Check out the Dropbox Tech Blog to learn moreThe Site Reliability Team consists of hybrid systems and software engineers who are responsible and take ownership for management of large scale infrastructure while improving reliability and automation.

SREs are integrated within the Platform team, and we're looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing infrastructure software, maintaining it, and scaling it.

You will be part of a small family within Dropbox that has a huge impact on the world.

As we continue to expand and evolve our footprint, we are looking for passionate SREs to help build and automate our infrastructure.

As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Fleet Automation team, you will play a critical role in combining software and systems to monitor and automate Dropbox's infrastructure.

Our team is comprised of different levels of experience and skill sets. Your expertise and fundamental understanding of the physical infrastructure will help ensure Dropbox's services run efficiently and reliably.

ResponsibilitiesYou will build scalable infrastructure to manage metadata for hundreds of billions of files, hundreds of petabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connections You will design the systems and processes that Dropbox engineers use to manage and deploy their software into productionYou will automate the server provisioning process to reduce the labor of our networking engineering and datacenter operations teams.

Once we plug a new server in, it walks itself through all aspects of provisioning to join the fleet without any human involvementYou are expected to bring a voice to the table and partner 100% with the rest of engineering, working together to come up with solutions that meet the needs of the businessYou will minimize risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctnessRequirementsBS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding(e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience2+ years of industry experience Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software developmentAbility to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasksAnalytical approach coupled with solid communication skills and a sense of ownershipMany teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.

If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment.

Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Total RewardsOur 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.

At Dropbox, we strive to be a great place for all Dropboxers to grow and be recognized for that growth.

This job posting reflects broad requirements, and represents two potential levels of role.

Through our assessment process, we will identify your level that ties to compensation based on your experience and technical expertise along with the scope of the role.

Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation.

We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox's total rewards package.

All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

If you are assessed at the IC2 level, below are the current Salary/OTE ranges (Subject to change):

US Zone 1:
$159,000 - $187,000 - $215,000.

US Zone 2:
$143,100 - $168,300 - $193,500.

US Zone 3:
$127,200 - $149,600 - $172,000.

If you are assessed at the IC3 level, below are the current Salary/OTE ranges (Subject to change):

US Zone 1:
$191,300 - $225,000 - $258,700.

US Zone 2:
$172,100 - $202,500 - $232,900.

US Zone 3:
$153,000 - $180,000 - $207,000.Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee's remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use.

Current US Zone locations are as follows:

US Zone 1:
San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro

US Zone 2:
Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro and West Virginia (DC metro)

US Zone 3:
All other US locations