Principal Software Engineer, New Initiatives

Company Description

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Team Description

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

Role Description

We are looking for a technical leader to help shape the architecture and services for Dropbox’s new initiatives. 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. These services support product features like enterprise retrieval, personalization and other solutions for fragmentation of Data. The architecture handles complex use cases of data tenancy/privacy, enterprise grade controls, data residency, hosting options.

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

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 
• Strong communication skills and a demonstrated passion for helping others leverage machine learning
• Proven software engineering skills across multiple languages

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.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).