About the role

Staff Engineer at Dropbox leading a team to deliver impactful business and customer outcomes. Owning technical direction and complex product problems in a consumer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of 15 to 20 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes.
Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as the DRI for critical company-wide objectives.
Own massive, ambiguous technical and product problems that create company-wide opportunity.
Be a prolific, hands-on coder who owns and implements the most critical, complex, and foundational components of the system.
Influence roadmaps across orgs, breaking silos and steering decisions that change how Dropbox builds.
Architect foundational systems that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment.

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer
Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team
Must have a strong mix of skills and depth across multiple areas, including three or more of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, and modern ML and LLM-based APIs and agentic frameworks