
Dropbox
Senior
Building the data-fabric behind hundreds of billions of files at Dropbox scale
A senior (IC4) infrastructure engineering role on Dropbox's remote-Poland EPD team, building backend systems that manage metadata for hundreds of billions of files and hundreds of petabytes of data. The bar is 9+ years of experience building large multi-threaded, geographically distributed backend systems in Python, Go, C/C++, or Java, plus comfort setting medium-to-long-term technical strategy under ambiguity.
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这场面试考什么
- Large-scale distributed systems design (metadata at massive file-count scale)
- Multi-threaded, geographically dispersed backend architecture
- OS internals, filesystems, databases, networking, compilers depth
- Setting medium-to-long-term technical strategy and roadmaps
- Operating in ambiguity and open-ended problem solving
- Cross-functional collaboration and on-call ownership at scale
常见提问方向
Design a metadata storage system that must scale to hundreds of billions of files
Tell me about the most geographically distributed or multi-threaded backend system you've built
Describe a time you had to set technical direction under real ambiguity, with no clear right answer
How do you think about consistency, availability, and partial failure in a system serving millions of concurrent connections
Tell me about a long-term project you owned end to end and how you drove it to completion
How would you approach improving interoperability across many disparate services/ecosystems
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