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Principal Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Dropbox

Remote · CanadaSalary not disclosedfull-timeDropbox Careers

As a Principal Engineer at Dropbox, you will own company critical, loosely defined technical problems with multi year impact, operating at the intersection of technology, product, business strategy, and applied AI. You will define long term technical direction for customer facing experiences used by millions, identifying where AI meaningfully improves customer value and translating evolving business context and industry advances into durable, multi area strategies and roadmaps that shape how Dropbox builds, scales, and innovates, while remaining hands on in software development where it…

Responsibilities

  • 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 the technical owner for the most important company objectives.
  • Tackle the most ambiguous and far reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds as much as how it builds it.
  • Remain deeply hands on in software development, owning and implementing the most critical, complex, and foundational parts of the system where leverage is highest.
  • Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates.
  • Architect and evolve foundational systems (this may involve both frontend and backend systems) and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
  • Model exceptional technical judgment and execution rigor, setting and sustaining high engineering standards across a distributed, virtual environment
  • Drive AI adoption both to increase productivity and to produce AI based features.

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    8 Oct 2026
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