Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core

Dropbox is a global community focused on creating innovative cloud-based solutions for collaborative work. The Staff Backend Product Software Engineer role involves leading a team of engineers to tackle complex technical challenges, shaping the technical direction and ensuring high engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of 15 to 20 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer 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
• Minimum of 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 three or more of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, and modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks
• Experience working on a consumer-facing product onboarding flow on web