Principal Software Engineer

Dropbox·Remote - US: All locationsRemotelead

In short

→Liderazgo técnico estratégico en AI y arquitectura de sistemas clave para millones de usuarios.
→Trabajas con alto impacto, resolviendo problemas ambiguos y definiendo el futuro de Dropbox.
→Eres el enlace clave entre tecnología, producto, estrategia empresarial y control de calidad técnico.

Fluent English required for collaboration with global teams.

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✓10+ años de experiencia en ingeniería de software con impacto a escala de empresa.
✓Experiencia probada en liderar arquitectura de sistemas de gran complejidad y escalabilidad.
✓Conocimiento profundo en integración de IA en productos a nivel de empresa.
✓Habilidades demostradas para alinear equipos y líderes técnicos en múltiples organizaciones.
✓Capacidad de influir en decisiones de estrategia técnica a nivel ejecutivo.
✓Experiencia hands-on en desarrollo crítico, diseño y revisión de código en sistemas complejos.

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Role Description As 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. 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 <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotv4z67zz122z8z65zz66zz80zdz77zz6

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