Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering

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Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer Identity & Auth Engineering

Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer Identity & Auth Engineering

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
203K-274K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
Design and re-architect the Identity systems at Dropbox to support multi-product capabilities mentor junior engineers and ensure software excellence.
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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. The 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
  • 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. 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.

Requirements
  • 8+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience working with and supporting high QPS platform services running in production.
  • Experience in executing on a system-focused roadmap for a major distributed system at scale and leading its phased implementation.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Infra SWE Experience.
  • Prior experience with Identity & Auth concepts like OAuth SSO OIDC SAML MFA RBAC.
  • Prior experience with Python and GoLang.
Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$202700$274300 USD
US Zone 3
$180200$243800 USD

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of software engineering or related industry experience
  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • Experience with high QPS platform services in production
  • Experience with distributed systems implementation

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Year Founded: 2007

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We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here you can own your impact to make work more intuitive joyful and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself—Dropbox is ready for you.

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05/19/2026

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