Corporate Site Reliability Engineer

Dropbox · Remote

Company

Dropbox

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Role Description

As a Corporate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Dropbox, you will help lead the infrastructure strategy and technical direction of one of the most innovative technology companies globally. Successful candidates will possess a growth mindset, strong accountability and be passionate about designing, building, and securing scalable infrastructure services in a dynamic environment. You will drive improvement projects in automation and observability and effectively handle incidents that arise in a prompt but measured way. In this role, you’ll serve as a technical lead of programs related to monitoring, metrics, alerting and reliability throughout the IT Services organization, and contribute to the evolution of our world-class infrastructure while ensuring utmost security and scalability.

Responsibilities
  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Dropbox's infrastructure and services
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response
  • Build, Implement and maintain automations & infrastructure-as-code tooling, specifically Terraform, Ansible, and Github Actions as well as custom code platforms.
  • Utilize container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Red Hat Openshift, to manage containers at scale
  • Manage and optimize monitoring and logging pipelines using tools like Datadog and Cribl LogStream
  • Drive improvement projects related to service health and visibility for our stakeholders, ranging from developers to business service owners to C-level.
  • Develop and maintain custom tooling and automation scripts in Bash, Python and other scripting languages
  • Perform periodic on-call duty to manage incidents related to the reliability of Dropbox corporate services
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide support during and after incident response calls
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or a similar engineering roles with hands-on coding experience
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, R53, Lambda, and others
  • Strong knowledge of Linux administration, internals, filesystems, volume management and specific distro’s such as Ubuntu, RHEL, DNS, DHCP
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools, Datadog and logging pipeline tools such as Vector or Cribl LogStream
  • Experience driving one or more transformational programs related to metrics and observability
  • Experience with scripting in a higher level language (Python preferred)
  • Experience developing automation to solve infrastructure-related tasks with tools such as Chef/Ansible/Terraform/
  • Experience with log analysis and building metrics, alerts and visuals from log data
  • Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform 
  • Strong Proficiency in Config Management tools specifically Ansible Automation Platform and Chef
  • Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
  • Knowledge of LDAP, REST API’s and current Auth
  • Familiarity with GitHub and Git-based workflows
  • Understanding of RDS databases and network security technologies, such as WAF
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Many 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.
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Date Posted

08/27/2023

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