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Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform
Dropbox
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $192,400 - $325,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
About the role
- Lead and grow a team of engineers building the orchestration and planning layer of Dropbox’s agent platform
- Define and deliver the long-term vision, technical roadmap, and execution strategy for agent orchestration, planning, and developer tooling
- Partner with research and product teams to translate user goals and AI capabilities into reliable, scalable orchestration systems
- Drive system design and implementation for multi-agent coordination, scheduling, and failure recovery
- Oversee the creation of an automated evaluation platform to measure agent performance, accuracy, latency, and reliability
- Ensure platform quality through strong observability, testing, and continuous evaluation pipelines
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and accountability
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams delivering production-scale distributed systems
- Proven experience building or operating orchestration, scheduling, or workflow systems
- Deep technical understanding of distributed systems design, fault tolerance, API design, and service reliability
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional technical programs, aligning research, product, and infrastructure teams toward shared goals
- Experience managing technical roadmaps, hiring plans, and performance management for senior-level engineers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on measurable outcomes such as latency, throughput, reliability, and cost
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and present to senior leadership.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringdistributed systemsorchestration systemsscheduling systemsworkflow systemsAPI designfault toleranceservice reliabilityperformance managementautomated evaluation
Soft skills
leadershipanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunication skillscollaborationexperimentationaccountabilityinfluencecross-functional alignmentpresentation skills
