Dropbox currently has 12 active AI-related job listings. The application stage accounts for 50% of these roles, followed by agents at 33%. Product is the most frequent function with 7 listings, and the United States and Canada are the top hiring countries, each with 10 roles. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, LLM observability, and RAG, suggesting a focus on building and managing AI agents. Over the last 30 days, Dropbox has posted 2 new AI roles, representing a 71% decrease compared to the prior 30-day period.
Currently tracking 8 active AI roles, down 33% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $154k–$385k (avg $246k).
Dropbox currently has 11 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration (2), Senior Data Scientist, AI Products (2), Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Search Platform (2), Staff Product Manager (2), Frontend Product Software Engineer, Design Systems. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Dropbox's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (64%), application (18%), data (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Dropbox is hiring AI talent in: United States (9 roles), Canada (9 roles), Mexico (7 roles), Poland (1 role).
Job postings at Dropbox most frequently reference: rag, agent orchestration, llm observability, recommender systems, model serving.
In the past 30 days, Dropbox has posted 4 new AI-related roles. That is a -20% change versus the prior 30 days (5 → 4).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration Principal Software Engineer at Dropbox focused on core sharing and collaboration, with a significant emphasis on applying AI and LLM-based frameworks to improve customer value and engineering workflows. The role involves defining long-term technical strategy, architecting foundational systems, and hands-on software development, with a focus on responsible AI adoption and scaling AI-powered foundations. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Core Sharing & Collaboration Principal Software Engineer at Dropbox focused on core sharing and collaboration, with a significant emphasis on applying AI and LLMs to improve customer value and engineering workflows. The role involves defining long-term technical strategy, architecting foundational systems, and hands-on software development for consumer-facing products used by millions. Requires practical experience with modern ML, LLM APIs, and agentic frameworks in production, with a focus on quality, cost, and risk. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Search Platform Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale a next-generation, AI-powered search platform for Dropbox Dash, unifying file and folder search with diverse capabilities like vector search, multi-modal search, Q&A, and recommendations, while scaling the indexing infrastructure for trillions of documents. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Search Platform Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale a next-generation, AI-powered search platform for Dropbox Dash, unifying file search with diverse retrieval capabilities like vector and multi-modal search, and handling trillions of documents. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on company-wide reliability strategy, advancing Dropbox’s stability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence as AI technologies reshape software development. The role involves defining reliability strategy for agentic development and AI-enabled software delivery, preparing for increased complexity, and partnering across teams to raise reliability standards and guide platform investments. | — | 5 |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on company-wide reliability strategy, advancing Dropbox’s stability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence as AI technologies reshape software development. Will help define reliability strategy for agentic development and AI-enabled software delivery, partner across Engineering, Product, and leadership teams, and raise the bar for reliability. | — | 5 |
| Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Core Performance Staff Fullstack Software Engineer focused on application performance across consumer-facing surfaces (web, iOS, Android, desktop) at Dropbox. This role involves defining performance standards, driving improvements through measurement and engineering, and optimizing AI-assisted engineering workflows. The engineer will initially focus on web performance (React) and then expand to other clients and backend services (Python, Go). | — | 5 |
| Principal Engineer, Identity & Engagement Principal Software Engineer to define and build the next-generation identity platform powering Dropbox’s product ecosystem, enabling AI-powered workflows and intelligent, agent-driven experiences. | — | 5 |
| Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Data Engineering Staff Data Engineer focused on modernizing Dropbox's analytics platform, building reusable data models, and integrating AI-native tooling for data development and exploration. The role emphasizes driving standardization, data governance, and cross-functional alignment. | — | 5 |
| Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Data Engineering Staff Data Engineer to modernize Dropbox's analytics platform, build shared data models, and integrate AI-native tooling for data development. Focus on standardization, governance, and pipeline architecture. | Data | 5 |
| Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Core Performance Staff Fullstack Software Engineer on the Growth Monetization team at Dropbox, responsible for optimizing customer discovery, trial, and purchase systems. The role involves leading technical strategy for checkout, trial, conversion, and subscription systems, impacting revenue growth and customer retention. It requires architecting and building AI-forward solutions for personalization, conversion optimization, and churn reduction, while mentoring a team of 15 engineers. The role has high visibility and direct business impact on a critical revenue-driving platform. | — | 5 |
| Senior Workday Analyst Senior Workday Analyst role focused on optimizing and modernizing the People Technology ecosystem at Dropbox. The role involves advanced configuration, testing, and maintenance of Workday modules, designing scalable solutions, managing security frameworks, and leveraging Workday AI and automation capabilities to improve employee experience and operational efficiency. It requires a product-minded approach and strong analytical skills to translate business needs into technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Workday Analyst Senior Workday Analyst role focused on optimizing and modernizing the People Technology ecosystem at Dropbox. The role involves advanced configuration, testing, and maintenance of Workday modules, designing scalable solutions, managing security frameworks, and leveraging Workday AI and automation capabilities to improve employee experience and operational efficiency. It requires a product-minded approach and strong analytical skills to translate business needs into technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Commerce Platform Staff Backend Product Software Engineer for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, focusing on building and evolving systems that power monetization across all sales motions. Responsibilities include owning and influencing systems spanning CRM, CPQ, Billing, and their integrations, driving improvements in platform architecture, system simplification, and data consistency. The role involves technical strategy, modernization, reliability measurement, and evaluating tradeoffs between business needs and platform health, operating at the intersection of engineering, Sales, and Finance. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Commerce Platform Staff Backend Product Software Engineer for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, focusing on building and evolving systems that power monetization across all sales motions. Responsibilities include owning and influencing systems spanning CRM, CPQ, Billing, and their integrations, driving technical strategy, modernization efforts, and ensuring system reliability and data integrity. The role operates at the intersection of engineering, Sales, and Finance, with high visibility and ownership over revenue-impacting decisions. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Commerce Platform Staff Backend Product Software Engineer for Dropbox's Commerce Platform, focusing on building and evolving systems that power monetization across all sales motions. This role involves owning and influencing systems spanning CRM, CPQ, Billing, and their integrations, driving improvements in platform architecture, system simplification, and data consistency. The engineer will define and drive technical strategy for complex, revenue-critical platforms, balancing short-term needs with long-term health, and operating at the intersection of engineering, Sales, and Finance. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer, Identity & Engagement Principal Software Engineer to define and build the next-generation identity platform powering Dropbox’s product ecosystem. This platform is central to user onboarding, collaboration, enterprise integrations, and AI-powered workflows. The role involves setting technical vision, leading architectural evolution of identity systems (authentication, authorization, account lifecycle, delegated access), and partnering with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and AI teams to build secure, scalable systems that enable intelligent, agent-driven experiences. This is a high-impact, company-level role shaping trust, access, and control across Dropbox. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer, Analytics Data Engineering Data Engineer role focused on building large, scalable analytics pipelines from scratch using modern Big Data technologies like Spark and Databricks. Responsibilities include defining data assets, designing integrations and quality frameworks, and collaborating with business units and engineering teams on data platform architecture. Requires extensive experience with Spark, SQL, and data modeling. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer, Analytics Data Engineering Dropbox is hiring a Data Engineer for their Analytics Data Engineering team. This role involves building large, scalable analytics pipelines from scratch using modern Big Data technologies, focusing on data modeling, Spark jobs, data integrations, and data quality frameworks. The engineer will collaborate with business units and other engineering teams to define data platform architecture and conceptualize data architecture for large-scale projects. Responsibilities include designing, building, and optimizing data models, visualizations, and pipelines to support various use cases. The role requires significant experience with Spark, Python/Java/Scala, SQL, schema design, dimensional data modeling, medallion architectures, and the Databricks platform. Experience with orchestration frameworks like Airflow and data quality monitoring tools is preferred. The role is part of a team that may have on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Software Engineer Infrastructure Engineer role focused on building and scaling robust systems for metadata management, data fabric expansion, and analytics platform optimization. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance, reliability, and security of the platform, impacting millions of users globally. Requires strong software development experience in backend systems and proficiency in languages like Python or Go. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Software Engineer Infrastructure Engineer role focused on building and managing robust systems for data management, scalability, and reliability, supporting core products and future innovations. Responsibilities include handling massive file metadata, expanding the data fabric, optimizing analytics platforms, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires significant software development experience with backend systems and proficiency in multiple programming languages. | — | 0 |