Role Description
As a Product Engineer at Dropbox, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of collaboration and file sharing. Your responsibilities will revolve around developing and enhancing our suite of Dropbox Products to deliver exceptional user experiences. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, turning innovative ideas into robust, scalable, and user-friendly features.
This year, Dropbox is on a mission to expedite the creation and implementation of AI-enable products by providing a comprehensive AI technology stack that facilitates speedy prototyping and reliable deployment of AI-driven functionalities.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
- Autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make effective tradeoffs between technical requirements and business goals.
- Mentor junior engineers and contributing to the overall growth and success of the engineering team.
- Adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, with a focus on continuous learning and professional development.
- Ensure continuous service operation by participating in the team's on-call rotation, including outside core collaboration hours on a periodic basis.
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 employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building applications professionally.
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field. (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
- Delivered tangible results, from conceptualization to implementation, while making significant contributions to the success of the project.
- Experience in developing web applications, demonstrating a deep understanding of the intricacies involved in building robust and scalable systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
- Technologies: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React, Python, MySQL, Go, Java, Rust
Total Rewards
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$195,800—$265,000 USD
US Zone 3
$174,100—$235,500 USD
Top Skills
Dropbox Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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