Principal Engineer, AI-Driven Platform Architect

Showcify, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 256,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

Dropbox is seeking a Principal Engineer to own high‑impact, multi‑year technical challenges at scale, shaping long‑term direction for customer‑facing experiences and applied AI while staying hands‑on where it provides the greatest leverage.

You will set foundational architecture, drive execution standards, and align senior leaders across boundaries, leading AI adoption and durable platform initiatives that enable Dropbox to innovate for hundreds of millions of users.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent industry experience.
• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems across multiple teams or organizations.
• Experience operating at a Principal level, owning company critical technical problems and influencing long term technical direction.
• Strong experience building consumer facing products at scale with emphasis on user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Broad and deep technical expertise across frontend, mobile, databases, storage, and distributed systems.
• Practical experience applying ML/LLM based APIs and agentic frameworks in production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations at scale, delivering customer and business impact.
• Define long term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders as the technical owner for core objectives.
• Tackle ambiguous and far-reaching technical problems, shaping what and how the company builds.
• Remain hands-on in software development, owning critical, complex parts of the system.
• Influence roadmaps and resolve bottlenecks to change how Dropbox builds and operates.
• Architect and evolve foundational systems and platforms enabling new product capabilities for hundreds of millions of users.
• Model sound technical judgment and maintain high engineering standards in a distributed environment.
• Drive AI adoption to improve productivity and enable AI-based features.

Job description

Dropbox is seeking a Principal Engineer to own high‑impact, multi‑year technical challenges at scale, shaping long‑term direction for customer‑facing experiences and applied AI while staying hands‑on where it provides the greatest leverage.

You will set foundational architecture, drive execution standards, and align senior leaders across boundaries, leading AI adoption and durable platform initiatives that enable Dropbox to innovate for hundreds of millions of users.