Role Description

We are looking for an experienced storage engineer with knowledge of storage architecture (including device, node, rack, & cluster architecture). Dropbox is seeking an engineer with design & development experience, who can work with hardware & software design & validation teams.

Responsibilities

• Design & integrate storage products into Dropbox infrastructure
• Validate new SMR & CMR products in storage solutions for production release
• Validate sub-systems & components for storage servers, including HBAs, NICs, CMR, SMR, Flash, & CPUs
• Troubleshooting for HW & SW issues related with storage products
• Provide leadership & mentorship in a collaborative team environment
• Interact with the Engineering Manager, Team Lead, site staff & attend regularly scheduled internal meetings
• Provide technical leadership for reliability testing during HHD program development phases in a server storage design

Requirements

• Undergraduate BSEE or BSCE
• 10+ years industry experience in development for storage products
• Experience with zoned storage & zoned block devices (SMR/ZNS)
• Experience with CMR, SMR, & Dual-Actuator Hard Drive technologies
• Experience with SAS/SCSI & PCIe protocol
• Experience with the storage data path from file system, driver, HBA, expander to storage device
• Experience with storage reliability test methodology (such as RDT & design margin testing)
• Advanced experience & skill with SAS / SATA / NVMe protocols & analyzers
• Experience working with ODM/OEMs in designing & validating Storage products
• Experience writing & reviewing storage hardware requirements documents
• Experience writing & reviewing storage validation & test specifications
• Experience with qualification of storage media including SATA HDDs & NVMe
• Experience with troubleshooting of storage components' firmware problems & working with Server System BIOS & BMC firmware engineers
• Experience profiling high drive count storage sub-systems
• Experience with Linux operating systems, filesystems, data protection algorithms, libraries for CMR/SMR drives.