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Principal Software Engineer, Product Engineering

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Remote - US: All locations
Eng - Teams and Collab (Sub Team)
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<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 creat

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Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features to help you save time, improve your productivity and collaborate with others.

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Dropbox is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Health & Wellness, Financial & Retirement, Family Support, Time Off & Flexibility, Learning & Development. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Connection Over Distance and Frictionless Execution and Creative Problem-Solving.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Empower Human-Centered Collaboration and Support Comprehensive Employee Wellbeing.

Dropbox has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Dropbox currently has 42 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Direct Sales - AMER (Sub Team), Partnership Management (Sub Team), Direct Sales - Japan (Sub Team). You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/dropbox/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Dropbox's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.

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