Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Smart Storage Management

Role Description

As an

Staff Software Engineer

on the

Smart Storage Management team

, you’ll define and drive the multi-year strategy that gives admins and users

clear storage visibility and control

while improving Dropbox’s

storage efficiency and cost posture

. You will lead architecture and execution across admin console and user-facing surfaces for

restoration, cleanup, and reclamation

workflows, partnering across teams to deliver cohesive experiences and high-reliability systems. This role is leadership/architecture-weighted

(not

code-heavy) and offers substantial senior-leadership exposure.

Our 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

.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver the

multi-team storage strategy

across with measurable outcomes.

Lead architecture for with strong safeguards and observability.

Make high-judgment trade-offs across

customer experience

,

compliance

,

cost

, and

operational risk

; drive org-wide alignment.

Raise

reliability/quality

bars

(SLO/SLI

ownership, validation frameworks, backfill/idempotency, rollout/rollback).

Mentor senior engineers; model high-signal design reviews and effective cross-team influence.

Lead incident posture and prevention; own learning loops and durable fixes.

Partner with PM/Design to set, instrument, and communicate goals.

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

10+ years building/operating distributed systems; 3+ years leading multi-team initiatives at Staff scope.

BS degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.

Deep expertise in front-end

(JavaScript,

React, Angular, HTML/CSS) and back-end

(Node.js,

Python) development.

Extensive experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

Expert system/architecture design

(pipelines/queues,

data modeling, idempotency, backfills, failure recovery, safeguards).

Proven

cross-org influence

and decision-making optimized for the broader org.

Operational excellence: own SLO/SLIs, lead incidents, prevent recurrence.

High-altitude communication and stakeholder management; crisp narratives when needed.

Models responsible AI tool use

(validate

edge cases/legacy systems).

Preferred Qualifications

Led multi-quarter strategies with measurable cost or

Customer Experience

outcomes.

Comfortable partnering with eng teams without being code-heavy.

Data platform familiarity

(e.g.,

large-scale validation, Spark/Databricks POCs).

Compensation

Dropbox applies increased tax deductible costs to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an “author”) for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.

Poland Pay Range

368 900 zł

—

499 100 zł PLN