[GAMBIT-UROPS-summon] DropBox jobs

[Philip Tan]

Hey folks. Steve Bartel is an alum of GAMBIT, he UROPed with us for nearly
three years, won BattleCode once, and now he's at DropBox.

Steve emailed me to let me know his company is now hiring, so if you're
interested in working at DropBox, have a look at the email below and send
any questions to sbartel at dropbox.com
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Philip Tan
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab


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Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated
by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service
that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email
around attachments. Drew coded a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT
student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help
make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on
crafting a simple and reliable experience across every computer and phone.

Dropbox has seen amazing growth since it launched in September 2008 and
today we have:

   - 25M people registered on Dropbox
   - More than 1M files saved every 5 min
   - 200M files saved daily
   - Paying customers in 175 countries
   - Dropbox in five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and
   Japanese


Dropbox is fewer than 60 people total. This means extremely high leverage
for each engineer.  We're also in a unique position of having desktop apps,
mobile apps, a big web presence, and huge systems server side. You can work
on almost anything you find interesting, and our development cycles will let
you see your idea from Monday in millions of peoples' hands on Friday.
Meanwhile, you'll be working with talented, like-minded teammates to bring
the complex parts of Dropbox together into something that simplifies
peoples' lives.

Here are a few of the technical challenges we've tackled:

   - Scaled MySQL to handle metadata for hundreds of billions of files.
   - Created cross-platform custom Python memory allocators to keep our
   client memory footprint low when dealing with lots of files.
   - Built a custom LAN protocol allowing Dropbox clients to communicate and
   transfer files between themselves when on the same local network.
   - Reverse engineered operating systems to add icon overlays and
   contextual menus.
   - Designed custom servers that handle millions of concurrent connections.


Hope we sparked your interest in applying to Dropbox!  If you need to see
one more reason why it's great to work at Dropbox, take a look at this:
http://techcrunch.tv/tc-cribs/watch?id=41ZmIxMjpx8-W3ur5RIINPOUTTQuZcc2.

Click here <http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oNbJVfwm&s=MIT> to apply.
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