Principal AI Platform Engineer (Remote)

Devconnectplatform

United States

Remote

USD 240,000 - 385,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Dropbox seeks a Principal Software Engineer in Product Engineering to own company-critical problems across multi-year horizons. You will shape technical direction for customer-facing experiences used by millions, drive AI-powered product capabilities, and stay hands-on in high-leverage code areas while guiding architecture across frontend and backend systems.

You will partner with senior leaders to elevate engineering standards, scale platforms, and lead cross-organizational initiatives,

Qualifications

15+ years designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems.
Experience at a Principal level owning company critical technical problems.
Experience building consumer facing products at scale with focus on UX, performance and reliability.
Broad expertise across frontend, mobile, databases, storage, concurrency, and distributed systems.
Practical ML/LLM API usage in production with cost and risk awareness.

Responsibilities

Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and orgs delivering company critical impact.
Define long term technical strategy and partner with Product/Engineering leaders as technical owner.
Tackle ambiguous problems and shape what the company builds and how it is built.
Remain hands-on in software development, leading critical, complex, foundation components.
Architect and evolve foundational systems and platforms enabling new product capabilities.
Model exceptional technical judgment, set high engineering standards in a distributed environment.
Drive AI adoption to increase productivity and deliver AI-based features.