<h2>Role Description</h2> <p><span>At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Engineering Managers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints. </span></p> <p><span>As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll thrive in our team if you love chasing impact, working through ambiguity, and developing a culture of innovation. In this role, you’ll lead a team of 12-2<span>0</span> engineers, leveraging your robust managerial toolbox to drive direct business and customer impact independently. You’ll work closely with your direct reports, cross-functional partners, and other teams to build the future of Dropbox. Our team culture rewards a bias for action, engineering partnership in defining our strategy, and efficient operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving results in a collaborative, virtual-first environment.</span></p> <p><span><span>On our Core AI Platform team, you will be responsible for leading AI integrations into Dropbox’s flagship File Sync &amp; Share product. This team is responsible for integrating the Dash product into our </span><span>existing file-focused workflows and for our existing Dropbox customers</span><span>, as well as evolving Dash to become a platform product. This team will create a new platform/API abstraction to enable all Core teams easily integrate with AI-powered capabilities and build agents leveraging Dash and other technologies. <span>This </span>is a high visibility role leading a high<span> priority for Dropbox and has the opportunity to shape our future company direction, as we evolve the Dropbox product from sync and storage to an AI-powered workspace.</span></span></span></p> <div> <p><span>Our Engineering Career Framework is </span><span><a href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/" target="_blank"><u>viewable by anyone outside the company</u></a></span><span> and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more </span><span><a href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world" target="_blank">here</a></span><span>.</span></p> </div> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Directly manage up to 2<span>0</span> direct reports, as a single execution unit</li> <li>Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints</li> <li>Be accountable for high quality execution on critical and high visibility business objectives</li> <li>Be responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt</li> <li>Be responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations</li> <li>Lead the team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc.</li> <li>Review and approve engineering designs and be able to set technical direction <span>(in</span> collaboration with a Technical Lead)</li> <li>Drive cross-org initiatives alongside managing execution responsibilities</li> <li>Drive career conversations and career plans for your direct reports </li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding <span>(e.g.,</span> physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience</li> <li>Minimum of<strong> </strong>8 years of people management experience with an engineering team</li> <li>Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience</li> <li>Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above and experience managing managers</li> <li><span>Must have experience building or integrating with AI products</span></li> <li><span>Must have worked in a platform team or a developer-facing API product with both internal and external consumers</span></li> <li>Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc</li> <li><span>Must be results-driven,</span> <span>especially good</span> <span>at</span><span> balancing execution predictability with the agility needed in bringing a new product to market</span></li> </ul> <h2>Preferred Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li><span>Experience shipping </span><span>AI</span><span>-powered features in production, collaborating closely with ML engineers and product teams</span></li> <li><span>Strong backend engineering skills with systems that support model serving, inference, and data pipelines at scale</span></li> <li><span>Strong background in AI agent infrastructure</span><span> and building AI agents</span></li> <li><span>Ability to evaluate AI models for a specific use case and advise on build vs buy decisions</span></li> <li><span>Expertise in distributed systems architecture — designing for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and graceful degradation in multi-service environments.</span></li> </ul> <div> <div> <h2><span>Compensation</span></h2> </div> </div><div><div><div><p><span>US Zone 1</span></p> <p><span>This role is not available in Zone 1</span></p></div><div>US Zone 2</div><div><span>$216,500</span><span>—</span><span>$292,900 USD</span></div></div><div><div>US Zone 3</div><div><span>$192,400</span><span>—</span><span>$260,400 USD</span></div></div></div>

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