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Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration

1 month ago
Canada
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
LLM Machine Learning Prototyping
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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
1K-5K
Founded 2007
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Description

  • Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations with company-critical customer and business impact.
  • Define long-term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders on top company priorities.
  • Tackle ambiguous, far-reaching technical and product problems that shape both what Dropbox builds and how it builds it.
  • Remain hands-on in software development by owning and implementing the most critical and foundational parts of the system.
  • Influence and align roadmaps across organizations while resolving structural bottlenecks.
  • Architect and evolve foundational frontend and backend systems and platforms that operate at Dropbox scale.
  • Set and sustain high engineering standards through strong technical judgment and execution rigor.
  • Drive responsible AI adoption to improve productivity and enable AI-based product features.
  • Contribute directly through critical design work, prototyping, and code reviews.
  • Act as a trusted technical partner to senior leadership across technology, product, and business strategy.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery.
  • 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale software systems.
  • Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level and owning company-critical technical problems.
  • Strong experience building consumer-facing products at scale with attention to user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Broad and deep technical expertise across several areas such as frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage systems, concurrency, and distributed systems.
  • Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM-based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems.
  • Sound judgment around AI system quality, cost, and risk.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to senior engineering, product, and executive audiences.
  • Experience defining and scaling company-wide platforms or architectural standards across multiple organizations (preferred).
  • Experience leading the introduction of AI or ML into core products or engineering workflows with durable impact (preferred).
  • Experience operating in highly distributed, virtual-first engineering organizations at global scale (preferred).

Benefits

  • Canada pay range of $249,700 to $337,900 CAD.
  • Opportunity to work on company-critical, multi-year technical challenges with broad impact.
  • Role includes significant ownership and influence across product, engineering, and business leadership.
  • Hands-on technical work with direct contribution to design, prototyping, and code reviews.
  • Chance to help shape Dropbox’s AI strategy and engineering direction.
  • Work in a distributed, virtual environment.

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