Staff Backend Software Engineer, New Initiatives

Role Description

Responsibilities

• You will articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
• You will write code as we expect our technical leadership to be in the trenches alongside junior engineers, understanding root causes and leading by example
• You will partner with product managers, designers and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves 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 improve the team and company – you will be an active participant in our culture (mentorship, interviewing, and new initiatives)
• 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

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building applications professionally
• Experience with large scale, low latency distributed system knowledge
• Proven track record in successfully tackling multi-year, multi-team technical strategy and deliver it through direct implementation or broad technical leadership
• Previous success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset
• Track record of delivering tangible results, from conceptualization to implementation, while making significant contributions to the success of the project

Preferred Qualifications

• Large scale, low latency distributed system knowledge
• Built high scale, optimizing the data ingestion, and search relevance
• Experience with security driven architecture
• Ability to handle the complexities of model training, tuning, and supervised learning
• API design

Total Rewards

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.

Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Current Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):
• US Zone 1: $233,800 - $275,000 - $316,300.
• US Zone 2: $210,400 - $247,500 - $284,600.
• US Zone 3: $187,000 - $220,000 - $253,000.

Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro and West Virginia (DC metro)

• US Zone 3: All other US locations