Dropbox

Dropbox is the one place to keep life organized and keep work moving.

Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core Intelligence & Media

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

19 days ago

Salary

$198.6K - $335.8K / year

Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Lead the technical delivery of a team of 15 to 20 engineers to deliver high-impact customer and business outcomes. • Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as the DRI for critical company-wide objectives. • Own massive, ambiguous technical and product problems that create company-wide opportunity. • Be a prolific, hands-on coder who owns and implements the most critical, complex, and foundational components of the system. • Influence roadmaps across orgs, breaking silos and steering decisions that change how Dropbox builds. • Architect foundational systems that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users. • Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment.

Job Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience.
  • 12+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc).
  • Must have a strong mix of skills and depth across multiple areas, including expertise in three or more of search, media systems engineering, performance engineering, modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks.

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