Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core Intelligence & Media

Role Overview

• 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.