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Client Platform Engineer

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Role Description

As a client platform engineer within CorpEng’s Workplace Experience Team, you’re on the front-line of Dropbox’s efforts to transform into a more enlightened place to work. As the world moves beyond mandatory work from home Dropbox is taking bold action to embrace Virtual First; a new work from anywhere paradigm. That means our MacBooks — the systems that you administer as our newest client platform engineer — are Dropbox’s new workplace, making what you do the foundation of how we facilitate a new workplace culture at Dropbox.

 

Your responsibilities will include enhancing the capabilities of a relatively new deployment of Jamf to meet our usability, telemetry, and security needs. This includes defining and implementing the interfaces that different Dropboxers use in their day-to-day computing environment. 

  • For most of the company that means creating a robust and useful Self Service portal 
  • For our internal support team, that means an interface that empowers them to solve problems and unblock Dropboxers’ whose work is impacted by an issue
  • For our organization, that means creating an interface that hosts telemetry data that verifies the integrity and security of every system in our fleet
  • And, for the CPE team, that means leveraging Jamf’s more advanced capabilities to create an engineering workflow that bridges the gap between source control and deployment automation

By joining Dropbox you’ll have a specific role to fill, and will collaborate with a number of cross-functional teams to deliver high impact services to Dropboxers across the entire company. Initially, there’s a lot of foundational work to be done. Over time, we expect that the problem sets will become less foundational and more advanced requiring more detailed data-driven analysis and review to inform decision-making. We can’t promise that it’ll be easy, but we can promise that it’ll be a lot of fun and you’ll both learn a lot and teach us a lot along the way, too.

Responsibilities

  • Perform integrations and automations that make Dropboxer's Macs easier to use for their day-to-day work
  • Build and maintain desktop applications that enhance Dropboxer’s user experience
  • Proactively expand subject mastery by prioritizing continuing education through independent study, educational programs, and conference attendance 
  • Keep current on Apple and Jamf's latest product developments, capabilities, and bugs, as well as, familiarity with the competitive landscape of tooling for macOS management
  • Plan and implement solutions for organizational problems within a company-wide cadence that cascades from annual plan, to quarterly Objective and Key Results, to 2 week sprints
  • Assist with researching and reviewing project statements of work by identifing dependencies and prerequisites 
  • Proactively update management on deadlines, deliverables, and requirements to maintain accurate forecasting as new information is discovered
  • Act as the technical lead for projects assigned by management
  • Represent the Workplace Experience Team's macOS platform expertise within Dropbox's corporate environment
  • Draft and edit documentation as part of project deliverables and keep it up-to-date with current state
  • Cultivate cross-functional relationships with other organizations within Dropbox 
  • Model and promote a can-do, high energy, inclusive workplace that cultivates everyone's talents, strengths, curiosity, and creativity

Requirements 

  • Certification in Jamf 200 or equivalent experience that demonstrates mastery of the knowledge domains covered by that certification
  • Five years of experience shell scripting to automate systems administration workloads 
  • Five years experience working with web APIs to integrate communications between server services using a programming or scripting language other than the shell. For example, Python, Ruby, or Swift
  • Five years experience using source control, such as git, with CI/CD integrations for systems management applications
  • One to three years experience writing and/or designing systems written in Swift, Objective-C, or another combination of languages
  • Excellent presentation and writing skills to both technical and non-technical audiences in a remote environment
  • A bachelor's degree in any field of study or equivalent post-secondary experience providing a depth and breadth of reading, writing, and problem solving experience.

 

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What are Dropbox Perks + Benefits

Dropbox Benefits Overview

We’re proud to offer benefits that help all Dropboxers take care of their holistic selves, so they can keep flowing at work.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Restricted work hours
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Sabbatical
At Dropbox, this is called 'Recharge'
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

In order to be successful in our Virtual First environment we needed to make changes that would allow employees to have more control over both where and how they work. Therefore, we embrace “non-linear workdays” with defined core collaboration hours that overlap across time zones. Beyond that, we encourage employees to design their own schedules to balance collaboration with needs for individual focus. We’ve also moved from “all day syncs” to an “async by default” culture, reserving meetings for discussion, debate, and decision-making, and handling all other work in our deep focus hours.

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