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Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration
Location
United States
Posted
143 days ago
Salary
$256.3K - $346.7K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration
Dropbox
• Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company critical customer and business impact at scale. • Define long term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders as the technical owner for the most important company objectives. • Tackle the most ambiguous and far reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds as much as how it builds it. • Remain deeply hands on in software development, owning and implementing the most critical, complex, and foundational parts of the system where leverage is highest. • Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates. • Architect and evolve foundational systems and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users. • Model exceptional technical judgment and execution rigor, setting and sustaining high engineering standards across a distributed, virtual environment. • Drive AI adoption both to increase productivity and to produce AI based features.
Job Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving substantial software development, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery.
- 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems with sustained impact across multiple teams or organizations.
- Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level, owning company critical technical problems and influencing long term technical direction.
- Strong experience building consumer facing products at scale, with a deep understanding of user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Broad and deep technical expertise across multiple domains, including several of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage systems, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems, with sound judgment around quality, cost, and risk.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to senior engineering, product, and executive audiences.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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