Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Core

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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.

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$204,900 - CA$277,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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