As a Staff Software Engineer focused on the Metadata Infrastructure organization, you will play a central role in shaping & evolving the transactional database systems that underpin nearly every Dropbox product. The Metadata Core & Metadata Services teams together operate foundational systems that manage Dropboxs transactional metadata at global scale, powering workloads across storage, sync, sharing, AI, & collaboration features. Youll be responsible for defining & executing the multi-year technical strategy for this critical infrastructure spanning distributed consensus, replication, caching layers, & high-performance storage engines while staying deeply engaged in solving todays real-world reliability & scalability challenges. Your work will have broad, company-wide impact, driving architectural alignment, enabling new product capabilities, & directly improving the productivity of engineering teams across Dropbox. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy deep technical problem solving, & want to lead through influence while building resilient, developer-focused infrastructure. By joining this team, youll have the opportunity to shape the future of metadata systems at Dropbox, gain exposure to senior leadership, & help set the technical culture for some of the most business-critical systems in the company.

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