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Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core Intelligence & Media at Dropbox
DropboxRemote - US: All locations·9h ago
LeadFull-timeAIAPIML
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 Staff Engineer at Dropbox to tackle complex challenges at the intersection of technology, product, and business impact. This role involves defining technical direction for customer-facing experiences used by millions and shaping how Dropbox builds and scales.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead the technical delivery of a team of 15 to 20 engineers to deliver high-impact customer and business 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.
- ✓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 expertise in three or more of search, media systems engineering, performance engineering, modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks.
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