Dropbox

Principal Software Engineer

Dropbox

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $221,000 - $336,400 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Build and foster a strong engineering culture focused on excellence, velocity, and innovation
  • Define the architecture and integration strategy for new initiatives, including both internally developed and acquired products
  • Conduct technical due diligence on potential M&A targets to assess scalability, quality, and strategic fit
  • Rapidly prototype new product ideas and validate emerging opportunities that fall outside existing teams
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and strategy teams to translate vision into technical execution
  • Maintain a high technical bar and guide the team through complex architectural decisions
  • Contribute to shaping Dropbox’s long-term innovation roadmap through technical insight and experimentation

Requirements

  • 10+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership role
  • Proven success operating at both startup and enterprise scale—building early MVPs and scaling to millions of users
  • Deep understanding of product architecture evolution and trade-offs between speed and scalability
  • Experience with technical diligence and evaluating software systems for integration or acquisition
  • Some experience in engineering management preferred
  • Strong bias toward experimentation and comfort navigating high-ambiguity problem spaces

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
full-stack engineeringproduct architecturetechnical due diligenceM&A evaluationprototypingsoftware integrationMVP developmentscalability assessmenttechnical leadershipengineering management
Soft skills
innovationcollaborationproblem-solvingexperimentationstrategic thinkingcommunicationleadershipadaptabilitycross-functional partnershiphigh-ambiguity navigation
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