Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering

dropbox· Business Platform (Sub Team)
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🌍 Remote📍 Remote - Canada: Select locations

About this 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

  • Collaborate with product engineering and internal teams which depend on Identity to implement their wide spanning use cases. Communication and collaboration is very important to be able to work with our dependent teams across the company.
  • Have a bias for action and deliver work of high quality.
  • Mentor more junior engineers on the team and be a partner to your EM in building a successful team.
  • Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive culture, championing team members and upholding our company values.
  • Ensure software and architecture excellence through quality feedback, risk mitigation, and alignment with technical strategy and business goals.

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

  • 8+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience working with and supporting high QPS platform services running in production.
  • Experience in executing on a system-focused roadmap for a major distributed system at scale and leading its phased implementation.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Infra SWE Experience.
  • Prior experience with Identity & Auth concepts like OAuth, SSO, OIDC, SAML, MFA, RBAC.
  • Prior experience with Python and GoLang.

Compensation

Canada Pay Range
$190,400$257,600 CAD

Frequently Asked Questions

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Is the Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering job at dropbox remote?
Yes, this Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering position at dropbox is remote, with team members based in Remote - Canada: Select locations. You can work from home or anywhere in the supported regions.
Which team or department does the Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering at dropbox belong to?
This Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering position is part of the Business Platform (Sub Team) department at dropbox. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering job at dropbox posted?
This Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering position at dropbox was posted on May 18, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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