Role DescriptionAs a Principal Engineer at Dropbox, you will own company critical, loosely defined technical problems with multi year impact, operating at the intersection of technology, product, business strategy, and applied AI. You will define long term technical direction for customer facing experiences used by millions, identifying where AI meaningfully improves customer value and translating evolving business context and industry advances into durable, multi area strategies and roadmaps that shape how Dropbox builds, scales, and innovates, while remaining hands on in software development where it provides the greatest leverage. Your influence will span organizations, setting foundational architecture, driving execution standards, and aligning senior technical and product leaders across boundaries. You will lead the responsible introduction and adoption of AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows, bring clarity to the most complex decisions, institutionalize engineering excellence, and contribute directly through critical design, prototyping, and code reviews. In return, you will operate as a trusted technical partner to senior leadership, shape systems and platforms including AI powered foundations that define Dropbox’s future, and act as a company level technical strategist, advancing Dropbox’s mission to create a more enlightened way of working. Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here. Responsibilities - 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 (this may involve both frontend and backend 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. 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. Preferred Qualifications - Experience defining and scaling company wide platforms or architectural standards that are adopted across multiple organizations. - Proven track record of leading the introduction of new technologies such as AI or ML into core products or engineering workflows with durable impact. - Experience operating in highly distributed, virtual first engineering organizations at global scale. CompensationUS Zone 1 $284,800—$385,200 USD US Zone 2 $256,300—$346,700 USD US Zone 3 $227,800—$308,200 USD

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Enterprise Technical Leads • Own high-impact enterprise engagements • Drive cross-functional alignment • Scale systems, not just solutions

• Drive end-to-end technical delivery for large, high-impact enterprise customers, often spanning multiple systems, stakeholders, and product areas • Architect and execute complex integrations and workflows, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned to long-term customer outcomes • Serve as the technical quarterback for critical initiatives and escalations, balancing speed, risk, and business impact • Build deep understanding of customer ecosystems, data flows, and business objectives to proactively guide solution design and adoption • Translate technical complexity into clear, actionable insights for both technical and executive audiences • Influence customer decisions by connecting Datavant capabilities to measurable business value • Lead coordination across Engineering, Product, Strategic Engagement, GTM, Science, and Privacy to deliver unified solutions • Eliminate ambiguity by defining clear plans, roles, and success criteria across stakeholders • Act as a trusted partner to internal teams, shaping product direction through structured, actionable feedback • Identify patterns across customer work and convert them into repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and automation opportunities • Balance bespoke customer needs with scalable, efficient delivery models • Drive operational improvements that increase team efficiency, consistency, and quality • Mentor and elevate other Technical Solutions team members through guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing • Set the bar for technical judgment, customer engagement, and execution quality • Influence decisions across teams through clarity of thought, data, and strong point of view

• Design and implement multi-file coding tasks across bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and testing • Write clear natural-language specifications and reference implementations • Develop and extend unit and integration test suites • Review peer-generated tasks for correctness, clarity, and realism • Identify edge cases, ambiguities, and potential failure modes • Ensure alignment between specifications, code, and expected outputs