Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core

Dropbox is a company that believes in simplifying the way people work together through innovative cloud-based solutions. The Staff Backend Product Software Engineer role is responsible for leading technical delivery, shaping technical direction, and collaborating with teams to drive impactful business outcomes while maintaining high engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical delivery of a team of 12 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