Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Platform
Company: Dropbox
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-10
About this role
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to our Compensation section below to see what neighborhoods fall under each Zone.
Role Description
Dropbox is on a journey to becoming a multi-product company, either through acquisitions or through building net new products from the ground up. Identity platform and services need to evolve to enable this strategic shift from single product to multi-product. In this role, you will re-architect the Identity systems to enable Dropbox’s success as a multi-product company. You will contribute to large scale distributed systems design, API design, phased data migrations, persistent storage design and other foundational work that not only helps to develop the Identity Platform services at scale but also lends itself for ease of operations.
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
- Provide technical leadership to a strong, well respected team, augmenting it on the more senior side.
- Collaborate with product engineering and internal teams which depend on Identity to implement their wide spanning use cases. Communication and collaboration is very important to be able to work with our dependent teams across the company.
- Have a bias for action and deliver work of high quality.
- Mentor more junior engineers on the team and be a partner to your EM in building a successful team.
- Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive culture, championing team members and upholding our company values.
- Ensure software and architecture excellence through quality feedback, risk mitigation, and alignment with technical strategy and business goals.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. ...