Dropbox

Dropbox

Principal Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Remote - Canada: Select locations · Principal

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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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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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