Lead, mentor, and scale a backend engineering team that owns Dropbox’s billing and subscription infrastructure
Set the technical and operational strategy for subscription lifecycle and billing systems, ensuring resilience, accuracy, and compliance
Drive system modernization by unifying legacy code paths, simplifying workflows, and enforcing platform-wide SLOs
Partner with Finance and Data teams to deliver reconciled, audit-ready revenue and subscription data
Own the north-star metric for usage-to-bill latency (p95 ≤ 1 hr) and ensure data correctness across systems
Establish processes and automation for reconciliation, error handling, and data quality validation
Foster an engineering culture centered on ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
Participate in on-call rotations if required by the team

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
Proven experience building and operating distributed backend systems with high reliability and correctness
Strong technical background in Java, Python, or similar backend languages, with experience in service-oriented architectures and data pipelines
Familiarity with AWS, SQL/NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Postgres), and event-driven or batch processing frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Databricks)
Demonstrated ability to manage system migrations, large-scale refactors, or platform unification initiatives
Excellent communication skills and a track record of effective collaboration with cross-functional teams including Finance, PM, and Data
Deep focus on operational excellence — incident response, monitoring, metrics, and SLOs
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythonservice-oriented architecturedata pipelinesAWSSQLNoSQLDynamoDBPostgresKafka

Soft Skills

people managementcommunicationcollaborationownershipreliabilitycontinuous improvementoperational excellenceincident responsemonitoringmetrics

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science