USD per year
Senior Network Engineer, Corporate IT
Role Description
Network Engineers are responsible for the infrastructure that connects our users to Dropbox services. This network transits traffic for all tenants of Dropbox serving infrastructure, including our in-house multi-exabyte storage system (Magic Pocket), large scale databases, edge POP infrastructure, and all user-facing services. We’re looking for a Cloud Network Engineer to join Dropbox’s Infrastructure Engineering organization. In this role, you’ll partner closely with SREs, Network Reliability Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers to design, build, and operate Dropbox’s multi-cloud environment across GCP, AWS, and OCI. You’ll take a hands-on role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our global cloud network, while driving improvements in automation, observability, and cost efficiency. This position offers the opportunity to tackle complex, large-scale infrastructure challenges—spanning cloud networking, compute, storage, and service delivery—and to help shape the next generation of Dropbox’s cloud architecture. Our Engineering Career Framework is [viewable by anyone outside the company](https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/career-framework) 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](https://dropbox.tech/engineering/engineering-career-framework).
Responsibilities
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Dropbox’s global cloud and corporate network environments across AWS, GCP, OCI, and Azure.
- Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure health using Datadog, and synthetic testing frameworks.
- Contribute to Cloud migrations and optimization of enterprise wireless performance.
- Develop, test, and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Python to streamline provisioning, configuration,
and change management.
- Collaborate with SREs to improve network observability using metrics logs traces.
- Participate in on-call rotation for network incident response.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in network engineering or related field.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols including BGP/EIGRP/OSPF/MPLS.
- Experience with cloud networking technologies on AWS/GCP/OCI/Azure.
- Proficiency with automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience programming or scripting in Python or similar languages.
- Familiarity with observability and logging platforms such as Datadog.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability engineering principles.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate across teams effectively.
Location
Remote - US: Select locations
Employment Type
Full Time
Remote Allowed
true
Dropbox helps find, organize, and protect work with products like Dropbox Dash, offering advanced search for video, images, and team members plus generative AI capabilities. It provides cloud storage, secure file sharing, collaboration tools, and industry-specific solutions for construction, media, technology, professional services, manufacturing, and education. Security features include encryption, tamper-proof documents, version history, and recovery.
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