Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering

Dropbox is a leading cloud storage platform, and they are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their reliability strategy. The role focuses on improving operational excellence and stability as AI technologies reshape software delivery.

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
• Set multi-year reliability goals, standards, and roadmaps across observability, debugging, incident management, service health, and operational readiness
• 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
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams, raising engineering quality, reliability judgment, and operational excellence
• 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
• Proven ability to define and deliver multi-year, multi-team reliability, infrastructure, or platform strategies with measurable business and customer impact
• Deep experience with distributed systems, production operations, observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, debugging, and reliability risk management
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex technical problems, debug production systems, automate operational workflows, and design resilient software components
• Experience influencing engineering roadmaps across multiple teams and making technical decisions that optimize for the broader engineering organization
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders through ambiguity and drive execution across teams
• Experience adapting reliability strategies, developer tooling, or operational processes for AI-assisted software development workflows
• Experience building or scaling observability, debugging, incident management, or developer productivity platforms for large engineering organizations
• 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