Principal Software Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Dropbox

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Manufacturing • Logistics

Dropbox is a cloud-based service that provides tools for storing, sharing, and accessing files across devices. It offers features such as document sharing, video review, automatic backups, and AI-driven scheduling. Dropbox also provides solutions for different sectors like teams, sales, marketing, and education, and industries including construction, media, technology, and manufacturing. With a focus on security, Dropbox ensures files are encrypted and protected against tampering. It offers integrations with various productivity tools and is trusted by major companies for efficient file management and collaboration.

📋 Description

• Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company-critical customer and business impact at scale • Define long-term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders as technical owner for important company objectives • Tackle ambiguous, far-reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds and how it builds it • Remain hands-on in software development, owning and implementing critical, complex, foundational system components • Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates • Architect and evolve foundational frontend and backend systems and platforms enabling new product capabilities for hundreds of millions of users • Set and sustain high engineering standards across a distributed, virtual environment • Drive AI adoption to increase productivity and produce AI-based features • Operate as a trusted technical partner to senior leadership and company-level technical strategist

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving substantial software development, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery • 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems with sustained impact across multiple teams or organizations • Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level, owning company critical technical problems and influencing long term technical direction • Strong experience building consumer facing products at scale, with a deep understanding of user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence • Broad and deep technical expertise across multiple domains, including several of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage systems, concurrency, and distributed systems • Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems, with sound judgment around quality, cost, and risk • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to senior engineering, product, and executive audiences • Experience defining and scaling company wide platforms or architectural standards adopted across multiple organizations • Proven track record leading the introduction of technologies such as AI or ML into core products or engineering workflows • Experience operating in highly distributed, virtual-first engineering organizations at global scale