Dropbox

Dropbox

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering

Remote - Canada: Select locations · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$205k-$277kDetected 6 days ago
Distributed SystemsSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • 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.
  • Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve Dropbox's company-wide technical reliability strategy to support the changing engineering environment created by AI-assisted and agentic software development.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives that reduce reliability risk as software delivery velocity, pull request volume, service complexity, and incident volume increase.
  • Partner with engineering leaders and platform teams to improve monitoring, alerting, debugging, SLOs, SLAs, and incident response systems at company scale.
  • Identify emerging reliability risks introduced by AI-enabled development workflows and design scalable systems, processes, and guardrails to mitigate them.
  • Drive clear communication and alignment with senior stakeholders on reliability priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and execution progress.

Requirements

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical roles.
  • Deep experience with distributed systems, production operations, observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, debugging, and reliability risk management.

Nice to have

  • Experience adapting reliability strategies, developer tooling, or operational processes for AI-assisted software development workflows.
  • Experience leading reliability improvements in environments with high deployment velocity, complex service dependencies, and large-scale production systems.
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers, setting technical standards, and spreading reliability best practices through documentation, reviews, talks, or architecture guidance.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled tooling, agentic development workflows, or operational risks introduced by rapid automation in the software development lifecycle.
  • $204,900 - $277,200 CAD

Skills

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Compensation

  • Canada Pay Range
  • $204,900 - $277,200 CAD

Benefits

  • Set multi-year reliability goals, standards, and roadmaps across observability, debugging, incident management, service health, and operational readiness.

Company info

  • 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.

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