Staff Backend Software Engineer, New Initiatives

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
234K-316K Annually
Internship
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. Join us!
The Role

Role Description

At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses in sharing, accessing, and collaborating on their files seamlessly. Our mission is to build a more enlightened way of working, where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.

As a Product Engineer at Dropbox, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of collaboration and file sharing. Your responsibilities will revolve around developing and enhancing our suite of Dropbox Products to deliver exceptional user experiences. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, turning innovative ideas into robust, scalable, and user-friendly features.

This year, Dropbox is on a mission to expedite the creation and implementation of AI-enable products by providing a comprehensive AI technology stack that facilitates speedy prototyping and reliable deployment of AI-driven functionalities.

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

  • You will articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
  • You will write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside junior engineers, understanding root causes and leading by example
  • You will partner with product managers, designers and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves those needs
  • You will develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation
  • You will improve the team and company – you will be an active participant in our culture (mentorship, interviewing, and new initiatives)
  • You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox
  • Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building applications professionally
  • Experience with large scale, low latency distributed system knowledge 
  • Proven track record in successfully tackling multi-year, multi-team technical strategy and deliver it through direct implementation or broad technical leadership
  • Previous success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset
  • Track record of delivering tangible results, from conceptualization to implementation, while making significant contributions to the success of the project
Preferred Qualifications
  • Large scale, low latency distributed system knowledge 
  • Built high scale, optimizing the data ingestion, and search relevance 
  • Experience with security driven architecture
  • Ability to handle the complexities of model training, tuning, and supervised learning  
  • API design

Total Rewards

US Zone 1

$233,800$316,300 USD

US Zone 2

$210,400$284,600 USD

US Zone 3

$187,000$253,000 USD

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
2,500 Employees
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Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

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 2,500 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.

Why Work With Us

Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.

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