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Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering

Dropbox Remote - US: Select locations Full-time Business Platform (Sub Team) Posted Jun 2, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Dropbox

Cloud Storage & Collaboration · Remote (Virtual First)

3.9
Employee Rating
4.2
Work-Life Balance
65
Open Roles
remotewlbeng-drivenequity

What employees love

  • Virtual First pioneer since 2020 — genuine remote-first culture with Dropbox Studios for collaboration
  • Strong work-life balance (4.2/5) and compensation (4.2/5) — managers respect boundaries

What could be better

  • Frequent re-orgs and layoffs every 6 months create instability and uncertainty
  • Career growth can feel limited — direction shifts and accountability inconsistencies
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About the Role

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$202,700$274,300 USD
US Zone 3
$180,200$243,800 USD

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Dropbox?
Dropbox has a work-life balance score of 4.2/5 based on employee reviews. This is above average, suggesting the company genuinely respects work-life boundaries.
What is Dropbox’s culture like?
Dropbox is characterized by these culture values: remote, wlb, eng-driven, equity. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.9/5. Virtual First pioneer since 2020 — genuine remote-first culture with Dropbox Studios for collaboration
How many open roles does Dropbox have?
Dropbox currently has 65 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in Remote - US: Select locations. Dropbox is a remote-friendly company, with many roles available for remote work.
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