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Remote - US

Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2024)

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

Over the years at Dropbox, Emerging Talent has created a variety of internships, apprenticeships, and early-in-career full time opportunities to build pathways for exceptional early career professionals to succeed at Dropbox. Supported by a community of mentors, program graduates, and fellow participants, our Emerging Talent programs are the perfect place to start your career in tech.

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Intern, you'll work alongside seasoned professionals, diving deep into real-world challenges and pioneering solutions that impact millions. With a focus on the future of collaboration, you'll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects that define the next chapter of Dropbox.
In our Virtual First work culture, you’ll connect with with Dropboxers virtually and in-person to build the foundation of a strong professional network. We will work with you to accommodate your school schedule culminating in a minimum of a 12-week internship. 

Responsibilities

  1. Innovative Development: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and deploy next-gen features for Dropbox's suite of products.
  2. Agile Learning: Immerse yourself in rapid prototyping, iterative development, and harness the power of structured feedback from your host team.
  3. User-Centric Focus: Ensure solutions are designed with the end-user in mind, emphasizing usability and intuitive design.
  4. Tech Exploration: Participate in tech talks, professional development workshops, and Hackweek to explore new technologies and tools.
  5. Mentorship: Receive guidance from your team of dedicated industry experts and mentors, gain insights into the tech world, and establish valuable connections.

Teams and Projects

You play an active part in the team matching process. We’ll send you an in-depth survey to understand your interests and strengths. These criteria as well as current business needs and your location are all factors we consider to match you closely with a host team.
Here are some examples of the numerous types of roles and teams that you can have an impact on:
  • Product Engineering - Product Engineers thrive working across technologies and codebases, and are also involved in various product development cycle stages. Along the way they represent users needs through close partnership with product, design, and user research. In this role you will deliver best-in-breed software by building robust systems that power optimized user experiences on marquee projects like Dropbox Paper, Transfer, or Family. 
  • New Initiatives - Dropbox is exploring 0→1 opportunities and building new products that will make a difference in the lives of Dropbox customers and employees! Ideally, you are at your best when you are in fast-paced and startup-like teams, building customer-facing products and having a deep curiosity which leads you to build side projects of your own.
  • Infrastructure Engineering - The Dropbox Infrastructure Engineering team designs products for vast scale. We craft components for millions of connections, oversee billions of files, and manage hundreds of petabytes of data. Our rigorous approach addresses edge cases and errors. Through refined code and thorough testing, we prioritize data integrity and security.
  • Customer Experience (CX) - The CX Technology team enhances our business through innovative technology. You'll convert our service strategy into tools for customers and agents, advancing technical support capabilities. Your role simplifies problem-solving for our team, refines user interaction on our support site, integrates ticketing with internal systems, promotes secure development, and creates self-help tools for users.
  • Mobile Engineering - Our Mobile team builds products and features that drive the core experience on the Dropbox mobile application. We enable users to easily manage their content, collaborate with their peers and work effortlessly with others. This position will play a key role in building and supporting mobile features.
  • Security Engineering- People trust Dropbox to keep their data secure, and at Dropbox we rely on our security engineers to make our products safe. You are a software engineer with a deep interest in building software that is secure yet easy to use. Security engineers collaborate with product teams to secure our software, production infrastructure, website, desktop and mobile apps and our corporate infrastructure and devices.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), graduating in 2025 or 2026
  • Experience writing or shipping software as part of coursework, personal projects, internships, coding competitions or research
  • Passion for learning, solving problems, and challenging the status quo
  • Available for Summer 2024 full-time internship (40 hours per week / 12 weeks)

Total Rewards

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. 

The expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) rate for the role is $8,500, subject to change.

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families.

Our benefits and perks programs include:

  • Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible Time Off/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Company-wide PTO days, Volunteer time off
  • Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s productivity, learning & development, wellness, co-working space

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

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).

Other open positions

Over the years at Dropbox, Emerging Talent has created a variety of internships, apprenticeships, and early-in-career full time opportunities to build pathways for exceptional early career professionals to succeed at Dropbox. Supported by a community of mentors, program graduates, and fellow participants, our Emerging Talent programs are the perfect place to start your career in tech.