Principal Software Engineer, Product Platform

Role Description

We are looking for a technical leader to help shape the architecture and services for Dropbox’s product platform. This will involve defining the large scale, low latency architecture that supports multiple products which touch hundreds of millions of people and a *lot* of data.

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

• You will work with infrastructure experts across Dropbox to help shape how we architect and build the foundation for multiple AI first products
• You will build delightful products and experiences for millions, while working alongside an excellent, multi-functional team across Engineering, Product and Design
• You will help craft the direction of building capabilities and multi-tenant services at Dropbox

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field involving large scale distributed systems, or equivalent technical experience
• 12+ years of experience building consumer or enterprise facing large scale distributed systems 
• Demonstrated skill developing low latency and fault tolerant architecture 
• Proven software engineering skills across multiple languages

Total Rewards