IOS Software Engineer, Mobile Infrastructure

Company Overview

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Overview

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.

Role Overview: iOS Software Engineer, Mobile Infrastructure

At Dropbox, our Mobile Infrastructure team plays a critical role in ensuring that our engineers can build, test, and ship world-class mobile experiences with speed and reliability. We are looking for an iOS Software Engineer, Mobile Infrastructure who can help elevate this foundation and bring our systems to the next level.

In this role, you will own and evolve our Bazel build system while driving improvements to our CI/CD pipeline through tools such as Buildkite. You’ll partner closely with other engineers to streamline workflows, resolve bottlenecks, and create scalable solutions that empower teams across Dropbox. With your expertise in Bazel, CI/CD, and iOS development, you’ll not only maintain and optimize our infrastructure but also enable our developers to work more efficiently and effectively.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the core systems that power Dropbox mobile development, collaborate with talented cross-functional teams, and directly influence the velocity and quality of how we deliver Dropbox to millions of users worldwide.

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

• Maintain and upgrade our current tooling both to support developers as well as ensure a properly functional CI/CD system.
• Improve the mobile build scripts by working on foundational issues and helping to rearchitect, as necessary.
• Work with other engineers to promote best practices and ensure a high quality bar is maintained.
• Collaborate with other build and platform teams to ensure tooling is properly supported and scalable to future solutions.
• Provide support for other components owned by this team, not limited to features currently written in Swift.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
• 5-9 years of experience.
• Understanding of operation/administration CI/CD systems (e.g Buildkite, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Engineering skills and experience with iOS application development with interest in deep-diving into platform build tools (i.e Bazel).
• Experience working across teams/org to accomplish long-range projects.
• Understanding of either/both macOS/Linux system administration is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Swift.
• Understanding of either/both macOS/Linux system administration.

Compensation & Benefits

The expected annual salary for US Zone 1 is $204,000—$276,000 USD, US Zone 2 is $183,600—$248,400 USD, and US Zone 3 is $163,200—$220,800 USD. This is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package, which also includes a corporate bonus program or sales incentive, and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations within these US zones.

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to: Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting; Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off; Income Protection Plans; Business Travel Protection; Perks Allowance; Parental benefits; Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.to; Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance; Mental health and wellness benefits; Disability and neurodivergence support benefits.

Dropbox supports responsible use of AI for preparation, but misrepresentation of skills or experience is not permitted. Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming diverse internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.

Key skills/competency

• Bazel
• CI/CD
• iOS Development
• Swift
• Mobile Infrastructure
• Build Systems
• Workflow Optimization
• Scalability
• macOS/Linux Administration
• Problem Solving