The opportunity
AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it.
What you'll do
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 (this may involve both frontend and: backend systems) and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
What they're looking for
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving: substantial software development, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery.
- + 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.
- Experience defining and scaling company wide platforms or architectural: standards that are adopted across multiple organizations.
