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.

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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