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Principal Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Dropbox
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $248,600 - $336,400 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsSDLC
About the role
- Define the long-term architecture for Dropbox’s developer productivity platform, including a unified internal developer portal (“Dropbox Console”), default workflows, and intelligent agents.
- Own platform-wide architectural patterns that streamline the entire SDLC: from local dev and CI to testing, debugging, and deployment.
- Build abstractions and systems that scale across monorepo, multi-platform (desktop/web/mobile), and hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
- Lead the design and implementation of agentic workflows for core developer tasks—code reviews, test generation, flaky test triage, documentation, migrations, etc.
- Design systems that embed safe and assistive AI directly into development surfaces and tools, enabling faster iteration while preserving quality and auditability.
- Define best practices for integrating LLMs into engineering workflows, including supervision checkpoints, rollback strategies, and metrics.
- Partner with infrastructure, product, and engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and define metrics that matter for business outcomes.
- Drive migration from fragmented tools and tribal workflows to a unified platform that enables flow-state for developers.
- Set and enforce standards for quality, safety, and reliability of automation and AI workflows.
- Serve as a technical multiplier, mentoring teams across Dropbox and raising the bar on system design, platform thinking, and developer empathy.
- Collaborate deeply with PMs, DX researchers, SREs, and leadership to align priorities and deliver developer delight.
- Represent Dropbox in the external platform and AI productivity communities through talks, papers, and open-source contributions where appropriate.
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience with a deep background in distributed systems, internal developer platforms, or DevProd infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of monorepos, complex CI/CD setups, local development, multi-platform development, and developer journey mapping.
- Demonstrated experience building large-scale platforms with high reliability, composability, and extensibility.
- Passionate about AI, with hands-on experience (or deep exposure) to integrating LLMs, RAG systems, or intelligent assistants into engineering workflows.
- Strong product sense and empathy for developer pain—capable of translating data and feedback into high-leverage solutions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
distributed systemsinternal developer platformsDevProd infrastructuremonoreposCI/CDmulti-platform developmentlarge-scale platformsAI integrationLLMsRAG systems
Soft skills
mentoringsystem designplatform thinkingdeveloper empathycollaborationproduct sensetranslating data into solutions
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