Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core

2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

Description

  • Lead the technical delivery of a 12-engineer team to drive high-impact business and customer outcomes.
  • Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management on critical company-wide objectives.
  • Own large, ambiguous technical and product problem spaces with company-wide impact.
  • Write code daily and implement critical, complex, and foundational system components.
  • Influence roadmaps across organizations by breaking down silos and steering technical decisions.
  • Architect foundational systems that support new product capabilities and operate reliably at scale for hundreds of millions of users.
  • Provide senior technical leadership in a virtual-first environment and maintain high engineering standards.
  • Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through coaching and example.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience working on a consumer user-facing team, not only a platform or developer-facing API product team.
  • Strong depth across at least three areas such as frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, or modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks.
  • Experience working on a consumer-facing product onboarding flow on web (preferred).
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotations when assigned to the team.
  • Experience leading technical work across team boundaries and influencing org-level roadmaps.
  • Strong communication skills for working across functions and levels.

Benefits

  • US Zone 2 compensation range: $223,400–$302,200 USD.
  • US Zone 3 compensation range: $198,600–$268,600 USD.
  • Opportunity to work in a virtual-first environment.
  • Exposure to high-impact, company-wide technical problems.
  • Chance to shape multi-year product and engineering roadmaps.

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