Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration

<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Role Description</span></h2> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotv4z67zz122z8z65zz66zz80zdz77zz65zez78zfz70zbz83zz81zz90zcz67zwz78zz74zz122zrvjz84zz80zp">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.</span></p> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotv4z67zz122z8z65zz66zz80zdz77zz65zez78zfz70zbz83zz81zz90zcz67zwz78zz74zz122zrvjz84zz80zp">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.</span></p> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotv4z67zz122z8z65zz66zz80zdz77zz65zez78zfz70zbz83zz81zz90zcz67zwz78zz74zz122zrvjz84zz80zp">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.<br><br>Our Engineering Career Framework is <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu1v1w _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _syaz13af _ect4ttxp _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/" data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">viewable by anyone outside the company</u></a> and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu1v1w _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _syaz13af _ect4ttxp _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world" data-renderer-mark="true">here</a>.<br></span></p> <h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Responsibilities</span></h2> <ul> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qovwiyz82zz65zz72zz78zz122zz88zz69zhyfc0z71zytz87zz79zz65zosqfcfkz80zne">Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company critical customer and business impact at scale.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qovwiyz82zz65zz72zz78zz122zz88zz69zhyfc0z71zytz87zz79zz65zosqfcfkz80zne">Define long term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders as the technical owner for the most important company objectives.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qovwiyz82zz65zz72zz78zz122zz88zz69zhyfc0z71zytz87zz79zz65zosqfcfkz80zne">Tackle the most ambiguous and far reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds as much as how it builds it.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz8 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)