Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Dropbox
Privacy Engineering
$174.1-265k
OTE
Plus corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
More information about location
Smart workspace company
Open for applications
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$174.1-265k
OTE
Plus corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience
- Demonstrated success in developing and shipping large-scale web applications with a user-centric mindset
- Skilled at building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for the web and/or desktop
- Proficient in handling full-stack projects and capable of building a minimum viable product quickly
- Experience with differential privacy and conducting privacy-related research
- Understanding of ML based techniques(statsig) for driving product metrics
- Strong understanding of privacy engineering principles and best practices
Desirable
- Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
- Full-Stack Development
- Technologies: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React, Angular, Node.js, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
What the job involves
- The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people
- Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development
- Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more
- In this role, you will architect and deliver scalable systems ensuring user privacy and data security across Dropbox products
- You will work closely with product managers, designers, and user researchers to understand user needs and lead various stages of product development
- Utilizing your expertise in computational techniques, you will conduct research to develop innovative privacy-preserving solutions while mentoring junior engineers and participating in our company culture
- Additionally, you will collaborate with other engineering teams and functions within Dropbox, balancing business impact, user experience, and technical quality
- You will articulate a technical vision for enhanced privacy and data security and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
- You will translate latest computational research on enforcing Privacy into a Product roadmap
- You will write full-stack code, understanding root causes, and leading by example in technical excellence
- You will have proficiency in utilizing Data to drive product metrics (ML or Decision Science is not needed but good to have)
- You will partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build products that serve those needs
- You will develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation
- You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours
- If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employmen
- Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $607.3m
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
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Share this job
View 58 more jobs at Dropbox