Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration at Dropbox, you will be responsible for owning 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO You will own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company-critical customer and business impact at scale. Your responsibilities will include defining long-term technical strategy, partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders as the technical owner for the most important company objectives, tackling the most ambiguous and far-reaching technical and product problems, shaping what the company builds as much as how it builds it. You will also remain deeply hands-on in software development, owning and implementing the most critical, complex, and foundational parts of the system where leverage is highest. You will influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how Dropbox builds and operates. Additionally, you will architect and evolve foundational systems and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users. You will model exceptional technical judgment and execution rigor, setting and sustaining high engineering standards across a distributed, virtual environment. You will also drive AI adoption both to increase productivity and to produce AI-based features. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving substantial software development, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery. You should have at least 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 driving technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations. WHY REMOTE Dropbox is a remote-friendly company, and this role will be performed remotely. As a remote employee, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere and will be part of a distributed, virtual environment. BENEFITS Dropbox offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a competitive salary, flexible schedule, health plan, parental leave, education stipend, and life insurance.