Principal Software Engineer at Dropbox driving impactful technical outcomes across teams and organizations. Defining long - term strategy and remaining hands - on with software development.
About the role
- Principal Software Engineer at Dropbox driving technical direction for identity and engagement services. Focusing on core platforms, architecture evolution, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for identity and engagement platform services, including APIs, service boundaries, data models, and reliability goals.
- Lead multi-quarter modernization efforts focusing on cohesion, observability, and operational excellence.
- Design and improve authentication, authorization, account integrity, and identity lifecycle services with strong security and privacy posture.
- Build and evolve the systems that power engagement signals, experimentation hooks, telemetry/analytics pipelines, and usage insights to support product iteration and growth.
- Create reusable platform primitives, reference architectures, and best practices that make it easier for product teams to build safely and quickly.
- Partner with Product, Design, Security, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes and organizational priorities.
- Own delivery of complex initiatives end-to-end—breaking down ambiguous problems, driving alignment, and ensuring high-quality implementation, testing, rollout, and oncall readiness.
- Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs, elevate engineering standards, and influence technical direction across teams beyond your immediate scope.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems.
- Proven ability to lead architecture for distributed systems with high reliability, performance, and security requirements.
- Strong expertise in at least two of the following areas: identity/authn/authz, service API design, analytics/telemetry infrastructure, search/retrieval foundations, experimentation platforms, or engagement systems.
- Track record of driving modernization efforts in complex environments.
- Excellent technical judgment and ability to balance speed, stability, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong communication skills: able to write clear design docs, align stakeholders, and lead technical decision-making across teams.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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