Dropbox

Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration

Remote - Canada: Select locations · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago

Machine LearningLLMsLeadershipCollaborationAdaptability

About the role

Your influence will span organizations, setting foundational architecture, driving execution standards, and aligning senior technical and product leaders across boundaries.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what's expected for our engineers at each of our career levels.

Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company critical customer and business impact at scale.
Define long term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders as the technical owner for the most important company objectives.
Tackle the most ambiguous and far reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds as much as how it builds it.
Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates.
Drive AI adoption both to increase productivity and to produce AI based features.

Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving substantial software development, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery.
15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems with sustained impact across multiple teams or organizations.
Broad and deep technical expertise across multiple domains, including several of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage systems, concurrency, and distributed systems.
Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems, with sound judgment around quality, cost, and risk.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to senior engineering, product, and executive audiences.

Experience defining and scaling company wide platforms or architectural standards that are adopted across multiple organizations.
Proven track record of leading the introduction of new technologies such as AI or ML into core products or engineering workflows with durable impact.
Experience operating in highly distributed, virtual first engineering organizations at global scale.
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: U nderstand yourself and others.
Judgment: E valuat e information and mak e decisions in complex situations.
Adaptability: L earn, adjust, and stay effective through change.

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