Dropbox

Staff Backend Product Software Engineer – Core

Dropbox

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $198,600 - $335,800 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead and mentor a team of 15 to 20 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes.
  • Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as the DRI for critical company-wide objectives.
  • Own massive, ambiguous technical and product problems that create company-wide opportunity.
  • Be a prolific, hands-on coder who owns and implements the most critical, complex, and foundational components of the system.
  • Influence roadmaps across orgs, breaking silos and steering decisions that change how Dropbox builds.
  • Architect foundational systems that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
  • Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer
  • Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
  • Must have a strong mix of skills and depth across multiple areas, including three or more of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, and modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks
Benefits
  • Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
codingfrontend developmentmobile developmentsearch technologiesdatabasesstorage solutionsconcurrencymachine learningLLM-based APIsagentic frameworks
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringtechnical directioninfluenceproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationdecision-makingengineering standardsadaptability
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science