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Principal Engineer, Identity & Engagement

2 hours, 41 minutes ago
Canada
Full-time
Lead
Security Engineer
Software Development
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Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox is a technology company that builds simple, powerful products for individuals and businesses. With over 700 million registered users worldwide, Dropbox offers file sync, sharing, online backup, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and more to st...

Internet Software & Services
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Founded 2007
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Description

  • Define and drive the technical roadmap for identity and engagement platform services, including APIs, service boundaries, data models, and reliability goals.
  • Lead multi-quarter modernization efforts to reduce legacy dependencies, improve scalability, simplify integrations, and strengthen observability and operational excellence.
  • Design and improve authentication, authorization, account integrity, and identity lifecycle services with a strong security and privacy posture.
  • Build and evolve systems that power engagement signals, experimentation hooks, telemetry and analytics pipelines, and usage insights.
  • Create reusable platform primitives, reference architectures, and best practices that help product teams build safely and quickly.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Security, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes and company priorities.
  • Own delivery of complex initiatives end to end, including problem decomposition, alignment, implementation quality, testing, rollout, and on-call readiness.
  • Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs, elevate engineering standards, and influence technical direction across teams beyond your immediate scope.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems.
  • Proven ability to lead architecture for distributed systems with high reliability, performance, and security requirements.
  • Strong expertise in at least two of the following areas: identity/authn/authz, service API design, analytics/telemetry infrastructure, search/retrieval foundations, experimentation platforms, or engagement systems.
  • Track record of driving modernization efforts in complex environments, such as migrating legacy systems, improving data quality and observability, or simplifying architecture.
  • Excellent technical judgment and ability to balance speed, stability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Strong communication skills, including writing clear design docs, aligning stakeholders, and leading technical decision-making across teams.
  • Experience with cloud-scale identity platforms, including SSO, session management, risk signals, account security, and privacy controls, preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI enablement infrastructure, especially data pipelines, engagement signals, retrieval/search systems, and feedback loops, preferred.
  • Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong compliance and security requirements, preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence org-wide standards and technical strategy beyond a single team, including mentorship of other tech leads and principals, preferred.

Benefits

  • Canada pay range of $249,700 to $337,900 CAD.
  • The role offers compensation aligned to a senior principal-level engineering position.
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact platform services used across Dropbox's product ecosystem.
  • Exposure to AI-driven innovation initiatives and foundational platform investment areas.

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