Principal Software Engineer, Dropbox
Dash Search & AI
$248-356.5k
OTE
$210.8-263.5k
BASE
Salary dependent on location. Plus equity & bonus program
Smart workspace company
Job no longer available
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$248-356.5k
OTE
$210.8-263.5k
BASE
Salary dependent on location. Plus equity & bonus program
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field involving large scale distributed systems, or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of experience building consumer or enterprise facing large scale distributed systems
- Demonstrated skill developing low latency and fault tolerant architecture
- Strong communication skills and a demonstrated passion for helping others leverage machine learning
- Proven software engineering skills across multiple languages
- You'll thrive in our team if you love chasing impact, working through ambiguity, and creating a culture of innovation
What the job involves
- The Dropbox team is growing, and we're looking for a technical leader to help shape the architecture and services that power one of Dropbox’s newest AI offerings, Dash
- Our team culture rewards a bias for action, engineering partnership in defining the product, and discipline in how we develop
- Dash is one of the fastest growing products at Dropbox and we need an extraordinary technical leader to scale the great work we are already doing and to diversify our efforts to continue to grow the business
- The work will involve defining the large scale, low latency architecture that supports multiple products which touch hundreds of millions of people and a *lot* of data
- These services support product features like search, personalization and other solutions for fragmentation of Data. The architecture handles complex use cases of several ml-based features and large scale data ingestion, preprocessing, enrichment, and knowledge extraction, indexing, and Dash’s backend APIs
- You will work with infrastructure experts across Dropbox and Enterprise to help shape how we architect and build the foundation for multiple AI first products
- You will build delightful products and experiences for millions, while working alongside an excellent, multi-functional team across Engineering, Product and Design
- You will help craft the direction of building capabilities for Dropbox Dash
Our take
Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.
Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.
The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.4m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
- Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
- Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
- Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
- Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
- We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
- No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
- Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arash Ferdowsi
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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