Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Infrastructure roles are increasingly central to modern SaaS, where reliability, security, and cost discipline directly shape product experience. This Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer position sits in that layer, supporting a portfolio that spans a new product surface (Dash) alongside established SaaS offerings. The scale implied—large user bases and high file volumes—signals work that is closer to platform engineering than single-service ownership.
From a SaaS career standpoint, infrastructure engineering at this level tends to build durable expertise: designing systems that stay operable under sustained load, evolving deployment and observability practices, and making trade-offs across latency, resilience, and developer productivity. Experience gained here translates well across SaaS companies because the underlying problems—multi-tenant reliability patterns, incident response maturity, and platform standardisation—repeat across products and stages.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer foundational work over feature delivery, and who enjoy turning ambiguous operational constraints into repeatable systems. It will likely appeal to candidates who want breadth across services and technologies, and who are comfortable partnering with product and application teams to influence how software is built and run in production.
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.
