# IC1 Reliability Engineer – Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #280（2021-07-25）
- **作者**: Dropbox
- **链接**: https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/ic1_reliability_engineer.html

## 简介

Check it out, Dropbox publicly released their SRE career ladder.

## 正文

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Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

*I take direction from my team to automate and understand the systems*

**Scope**
*Area of ownership and level of autonomy / ambiguity*

- I execute on defined tasks and contribute to solving problems with defined solutions.

**Collaborative Reach**
*Organizational reach and extent of influence*

- I work within the scope of my team with specific guidance from my manager/TL

**Impact Levers**
*Technical levers typically exercised to achieve business impact*

- Craft - I primarily focus on improving my craft as an engineer

**Impact**

- I work with my manager to prioritize tasks that add the most value and deliver high-quality results for my customer
- I understand and effectively participate in the core processes of my team (planning, on-call rotations, bug triage, metrics review, etc)

**Ownership**

- I follow through on my commitments, take responsibility for my work, and deliver my work on time
- I ask questions to clarify expectations
- I own my failures and learn from them

**Decision Making**

- I escalate to my manager when I get stuck and reflect on ways that I can improve from my mistakes

**Agility / Innovation**

- I share new ideas and can adapt my work when circumstances change

**Personal growth**

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I'm open to and act upon feedback from my manager and peers
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I'm gaining self-awareness about my strengths and areas for development
- I have a high standard of excellence for my work

**Talent Development**

- I am learning to interview and assess candidates to help us build a diverse and talented team. I consistently provide timely, detailed, and evidence-based interview feedback.
- I am able to represent my team’s initiatives and goals to candidates in a compelling way

**Collaboration**

- I can effectively collaborate to get work done
- I work with my manager to manage conflict with empathy in mind

**Organizational Health**

- I listen to different perspectives and I remove biases from my words and actions
- I practice the Dropbox Diversity Commitments on a regular basis

**Communication**

- I write and speak clearly
- I listen to understand others and ask clarifying questions
- I share relevant information on my project including difficult task-level trade-offs that impact the product to my manager and team (including product/business partners).

As a entry level Reliability Engineer, my primary craft focus is on learning the fundamentals of sustainably operating services and systems with a focus on reliability, efficiency, automation, and debugging coupled with gaining familiarity with the technologies in my area of work, and learning to work against plans and schedules.

**Systems Fluency**

- I understand the basics of OS or networks, or hardware and can quickly debug basic system issues.
- I am learning to understand a typical full stack application (client/load-balancer/frontend/backend/DB) and use the right tools to troubleshoot system issues.
- I automate simple tasks to reduce the toil in operating systems efficiently.
- I identify and suggest improvements to system utilization.

**Code Fluency**

- I translate ideas into clear code, written to be read as well as executed.
- My code is free of glaring errors - bugs are in edge cases or design, not mainline paths - and is well documented and well tested with appropriate use of manual vs automated tests.
- I’m capable of reading and navigating functions and classes/modules that I didn’t write.