Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core Intelligence & Media

Dropbox is a Virtual First company that is seeking a Staff Backend Product Software Engineer for their Core Intelligence & Media team. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to tackle complex technical challenges, shape the technical direction for customer-facing experiences, and influence architectural decisions across the organization.

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
• Has significant experience in use of AI tools for technical design, prototyping, as well as coding for production use cases