Role Description We are looking for a motivated Network Engineer to join Dropbox’s Corporate IT team. In this role, you’ll collaborate with senior and mid-level engineers to design, implement, and optimize enterprise network infrastructure across data centers, office environments, wireless networks, and cloud platforms.This position offers hands-on experience with network automation, performance tuning, cloud networking, and security. You’ll contribute to key initiatives while helping to advance the team’s capabilities in automation, observability, and cloud infrastructure consolidation.
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 - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize networks using tools like Datadog, Kentik, and synthetic testing
- Support network deployments, upgrades, and retrofits across data centers and offices
- Assist with daily network operations, stand-ups, and vendor coordination
- Contribute to Aruba Cloud wireless migrations and ongoing wireless infrastructure management
- Support networking efforts across AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI, including VPC design and routing/security optimization
- Assist with Zscaler implementations, including disaster recovery and business continuity projects
- Develop and maintain network automation scripts using Ansible and Python
- Automate network provisioning with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD
- Maintain and improve tooling like NetBox, Oxidized, ACL management, and IPAM systems
- Document network architecture, procedures, and runbooks
- Support network segmentation, traffic inspection, and secrets management
- Contribute to performance tuning to improve network reliability and end-user experience
On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.
Requirements - 2+ years of hands-on experience with Cisco and Juniper platforms
- Familiarity with network automation using Ansible, Python, and Terraform
- Understanding of cloud networking in AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI
- Experience with DNS, DHCP, VPNs, and enterprise Wi-Fi
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Datadog, Kentik, NetBox, and IPAM
- Basic understanding of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
- Interest in zero trust security (Zscaler) and network performance optimization
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with Aruba wireless (on-prem and cloud)
- Familiarity with Zscaler tools (ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, ZCC)
- Knowledge of Vault or similar secrets management platforms
- Understanding of container and Kubernetes networking
- Strong written communication skills for technical documentation and runbooks
Compensation Dropbox applies increased tax deductible costs to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an “author”) for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.
