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Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration at Dropbox
DropboxRemote - US: Select locations·1d ago
LeadFull-timeRustAIML
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Engineer at Dropbox to own company critical technical problems with multi-year impact, operating at the intersection of technology, product, business strategy, and applied AI. This role involves defining long-term technical direction for customer-facing experiences used by millions and leading the responsible introduction and adoption of AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows.
Key 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.
- →Remain deeply hands-on in software development, owning and implementing the most critical, complex, and foundational parts of the system where leverage is highest.
- →Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates.
- →Architect and evolve foundational systems (both frontend and backend) and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
- →Model exceptional technical judgment and execution rigor, setting and sustaining high engineering standards across a distributed, virtual environment.
- →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.
- ✓Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level, owning company critical technical problems and influencing long-term technical direction.
- ✓Strong experience building consumer-facing products at scale, with a deep understanding of user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- ✓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.
