# Principal Engineer, Identity & Engagement

**Company**: Dropbox
**Location**: Remote - Canada: Select locations
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $249,700-$337,900 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dropbox is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, Identity & Engagement to drive the technical direction and execution of the core services that power Dropbox’s product ecosystem.

In this role, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader,setting architecture, raising the engineering bar, and shipping high-impact platform capabilities used across Dropbox.

## Responsibilities

- Technical leadership and architecture: Define and drive the technical roadmap for identity and engagement platform services, including APIs, service boundaries, data models, and reliability goals.

- Modernization and platform evolution: Lead multi-quarter modernization efforts with a focus on cohesion, observability, and operational excellence.

- Identity and access systems: Design and improve authentication, authorization, account integrity, and identity lifecycle services with strong security and privacy posture.

- Engagement and insights foundations: Build and evolve the systems that power engagement signals, experimentation hooks, telemetry/analytics pipelines, and usage insights.

- Developer velocity and platform enablement: Create reusable platform primitives, reference architectures, and best practices.

- Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, Security, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to align technical decisions with customer outcomes.

- Execution and quality: Own delivery of complex initiatives end-to-end.

- Mentorship and influence: Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs, elevate engineering standards, and influence technical direction.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems.

- Proven ability to lead architecture for distributed systems with high reliability, performance, and security requirements.

- Strong expertise in at least two of the following areas: identity/authn/authz, service API design, analytics/telemetry infrastructure, search/retrieval foundations, experimentation platforms, or engagement systems.

- Track record of driving modernization efforts in complex environments.

- Excellent technical judgment and ability to balance speed, stability, and long-term maintainability.

- Strong communication skills: able to write clear design docs, align stakeholders, and lead technical decision-making.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with cloud-scale identity platforms.

- Familiarity with AI enablement infrastructure.

- Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong compliance and security requirements.

- Demonstrated ability to influence org-wide standards and technical strategy.

## Skills

### Required
- identity/authn/authz
- service API design
- analytics/telemetry infrastructure
- search/retrieval foundations
- experimentation platforms
- engagement systems
- distributed systems
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- cloud-scale identity platforms
- AI enablement infrastructure
- multi-tenant SaaS platforms

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