Senior Client Platform Engineer, Endpoint Platform & Automation

Dropbox
Ireland
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have led multi-phase endpoint platform migrations and have cross-platform OS expertise.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience leading large-scale endpoint migrations and cross-platform engineering expertise
    — “Personal ownership of a multi-phase platform migration or comparable change”
  • Individuals who thrive in remote environments and have strong asynchronous collaboration skills
    — “Clear written and verbal communication and effective asynchronous collaboration across regions”
  • Engineers comfortable with technical leadership, mentoring, and defining priorities across teams
    — “Ability to independently define priorities, align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of cross-functional coordination and dependency resolution
    — “Partner with Security, IAM, CorpInfra, and support teams to resolve dependencies and make practical trade-offs”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate your ability to build and maintain configuration-as-code workflows
    — “Develop automation, integrations, and configuration-as-code workflows”
  • Showcase your skills in defining deployment strategies and ensuring safe rollouts
    — “Make deployment safe and repeatable. Build version-controlled configuration with automated checks”
  • Emphasize your experience in reducing manual work and improving platform efficiency
    — “Improve efficiency and cost. Reduce recurring manual work and recommend tooling consolidation”
  • Demonstrate your ability to validate platform capabilities and identify gaps
    — “Validate capabilities and coexistence. Identify gaps, clarify management authority”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful migration to FleetDM
  • improved platform reliability and visibility
  • reduced manual work
Typical background
significant hands-on experience in enterprise endpoint platformsdeep expertise in Windows, macOS, or Linux

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Endpoint PlatformsMulti-phase Platform MigrationProduction AutomationAPI IntegrationGitCode ReviewControlled DeploymentDiagnosing Enrollment, Agent, Policy, Identity, Networking, And Integration FailuresMonitoringFailure HandlingLeast-privilege AccessSecrets ManagementOperational WorkflowsDefining PrioritiesCross-functional Stakeholder AlignmentCommunicationAsynchronous Collaboration

Preferred

FleetdmOsquerySQL

Stack & domain

PythonGoPowershellShellGitCode ReviewAutomated ChecksControlled DeploymentConfiguration Or Infrastructure ChangesDiagnose EnrollmentAgentPolicyIdentityNetworkingIntegration FailuresMonitoringFailure HandlingLeast-privilege AccessSecrets ManagementOperational WorkflowsDefine PrioritiesAlign Cross-functional StakeholdersCommunicate Trade-offsMentor EngineersLeadershipCommunicationAdaptabilityConnectionEnterprise Endpoint PlatformsWindowsMacosLinuxFleetdmConfigurationPoliciesQueriesApisAgent OperationsDeployment AutomationOsquerySQL

About the role

Original posting from Dropbox

Role Description

As a Senior Client Platform Engineer on CorpFleet Engineering, you will lead the migration to FleetDM and build the shared platform capabilities that support dependable endpoint operations. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical planning, partnering with Windows, macOS, and Linux engineers to introduce changes safely across a distributed environment.

You will develop automation, integrations, and configuration-as-code workflows, validate platform capabilities, and guide phased adoption. Beyond migration, you will improve platform reliability, visibility, and maintainability, helping the team reduce manual work and operate the service with shared ownership.

You will partner with Security, IAM, CorpInfra, and support teams to resolve dependencies and make practical trade-offs. This is an individual-contributor position with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the FleetDM migration. Define scope, requirements, architecture, dependencies, and a phased delivery plan with OS specialists and partner teams.

Engineer and operate the shared platform. Maintain configuration, agent workflows, policies, queries, integrations, and operational automation.

Make deployment safe and repeatable. Build version-controlled configuration with automated checks, peer review, controlled rollout, drift detection, and recovery.

Validate capabilities and coexistence. Identify gaps, clarify management authority, and establish which responsibilities should migrate or remain with existing tools.

Make platform health actionable. Establish trustworthy device populations, data freshness, enrollment and agent health, and owned remediation workflows.

Protect service continuity. Use representative pilots, acceptance gates, employee-impact checks, and clear pause and recovery decisions.

Strengthen team capability. Create reusable patterns, documentation, and shared support coverage through pairing, mentoring, and operational handoffs.

Improve efficiency and cost. Reduce recurring manual work and recommend tooling consolidation where evidence supports it.

Requirements

Significant hands-on experience engineering enterprise endpoint platforms, including deep expertise in at least one of Windows, macOS, or Linux and experience working across OS boundaries.

Personal ownership of a multi-phase platform migration or comparable change, including discovery, pilots, rollout, recovery, and operational handover.

Strong practical programming or scripting skills, such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or shell, with production automation and API integration experience.

Demonstrated use of Git, code review, automated checks, and controlled deployment for configuration or infrastructure changes.

Ability to diagnose enrollment, agent, policy, identity, networking, and integration failures and distinguish missing data from healthy devices.

Experience establishing monitoring, failure handling, least-privilege access, secrets management, and maintainable operational workflows.

Ability to independently define priorities, align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers.

Clear written and verbal communication and effective asynchronous collaboration across regions.

Preferred Qualifications

Production experience with FleetDM configuration, policies, queries, APIs, agent operations, or deployment automation.

Practical osquery and SQL experience, including query validation, performance considerations, targeting, and stale or missing results.

Migration or coexistence experience involving Intune, Jamf, or comparable endpoint-management platforms.

Experience integrating endpoint platforms with identity, security, inventory, or ITSM services.

Experience supporting developer-heavy, distributed environments.

Demonstrated improvements in platform operating effort, tool consolidation, or lifecycle cost.

Durable Skills

AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:

Awareness: Understand yourself and others.

Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.

Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.

Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.

To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.

CompensationIreland Pay Range€89.800—€121.600 EUR

Source: Dropbox careers

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