Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration

Dropbox·Remote - US: All locationsRemotesenior

In short

→Ingeniero principal que define estrategias técnicas a largo plazo para colaboración y compartición en Dropbox.
→Trabaja en plataformas críticas con impacto masivo, integrando IA en productos y flujos de ingeniería.
→Influye a nivel empresa, guía arquitectura, estándares y adopción responsable de IA.

Fluency in English required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia demostrada liderando arquitectura técnica de sistemas a gran escala.
✓Capacidad para definir estrategias técnicas a múltiples años con impacto empresarial.
✓Experiencia en integración de IA en productos y flujos de desarrollo.
✓Habilidades para influir en líderes técnicos y de producto en múltiples organizaciones.
✓Habilidades sólidas en diseño de sistemas, prototipado y revisiones de código.
✓Capacidad para liderar la adopción responsable de AI en toda la organización.

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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. 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.

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