Senior Engineering Manager

Role overview

Lead engineering teams at Dropbox as a Senior Engineering Manager, driving direct business and customer impact. You will help build the future of Dropbox’s File Sync & Share product with a focus on AI integrations and evolving the organization toward an AI-powered workspace.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 12–20 engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to plan roadmaps and sprints and ensure high-quality delivery on critical objectives.
• Manage larger engineering organizations (20+ people), including managing managers.
• Run career conversations and develop direct reports.
• Execute engineering work with a balance of execution predictability and agility for bringing new products to market.
• Support building/integrating AI solutions, including AI agent infrastructure, model serving, inference, and data pipelines at scale.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of people management experience with engineering teams.
• Experience running a standard Agile process (e.g., backlog management, standups, retros).
• Results-driven leadership in a collaborative, virtual-first environment.
• Experience in a platform team or a developer-facing API product with internal and external consumers.
• Experience managing engineering organizations (20+ people) and managing managers.
• Experience building or integrating AI products, including AI agent infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering skills for systems supporting model serving, inference, and data pipelines.
• Experience shipping AI-powered features in production and collaborating with ML engineers and product teams.
• Ability to evaluate AI models for specific use cases and advise on build vs buy decisions.
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture (scalability, fault tolerance, observability, graceful degradation).

Nice-to-haves

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent technical experience such as physics/mathematics).