Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer role sits at the “cloud foundation” layer that mature SaaS products depend on: the shared platform work that enables multiple applications and teams to ship reliably. In a company operating at large scale, infrastructure decisions tend to ripple across availability, developer velocity, and customer experience, making the remit inherently cross-cutting within the SaaS stack.
For a long-term SaaS career, platform engineering experience is unusually portable. Work on foundations—standardized environments, internal tooling, and operational patterns—translates across B2B and consumer SaaS because the underlying constraints (multi-tenant scale, reliability, security posture, and cost discipline) recur in most serious software businesses. Exposure to systems that handle high volumes also builds intuition for trade-offs that product-facing teams often inherit later.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer enabling other engineers as much as delivering end-user features, and who enjoy turning ambiguous reliability and scalability needs into repeatable primitives. It will appeal to professionals who want to operate close to production realities, collaborate across product lines, and develop judgment on how platform choices shape SaaS delivery over time.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team.
Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.
