Senior Engineering Manager, Core Media & Intelligence at Dropbox

You're a seasoned engineering leader with at least 8 years of people management experience and 10 years in software engineering. You have a technical degree or

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - US: All locations

Salary: $248,200 – $335,800/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You're a seasoned engineering leader with at least 8 years of people management experience and 10 years in software engineering. You have a technical degree or equivalent experience and a proven track record of managing managers and organizations of 20 or more. **What makes it worth a look...** This is a fully remote, full-time Senior Engineering Manager role at Dropbox, offering a competitive annual salary of $248,200 - $335,800 USD depending on your location. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have managed engineering organizations of 20+ and experience managing managers. * Must have experience building or integrating with AI products. * Must have worked in a platform team or a developer-facing API product. * Must have experience running standard Agile processes.

Job Description

## Role Description

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.

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 12-20 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.

The Core Media & Intelligence team will lead the development of next-generation, AI-powered applications built end-to-end on top of Dropbox. The mission is to design and ship intelligent, vertical solutions that deeply understand customer workflows and deliver differentiated, high-impact experiences. The team will work at the forefront of applied AI—leveraging LLMs, building autonomous agents, advancing search and retrieval systems, and integrating computer vision and contextual intelligence to reimagine how users interact with their content. Beyond product innovation, the team will also pioneer AI-driven development practices, pushing the boundaries of how LLMs and modern AI tools accelerate engineering productivity and time to market. This is an opportunity to build category-defining AI experiences at scale, on a platform used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Our Engineering Career Framework is [viewable by anyone outside the company](https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/) and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more [here](https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world).

## Responsibilities

• Directly manage up to 20 direct reports, as a single execution unit

• Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints

• Be accountable for high quality execution on critical and high visibility business objectives

• Be responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt

• Be responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations

• Lead the team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc.

• Review and approve engineering designs and be able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)

• Drive cross-org initiatives alongside managing execution responsibilities

• Drive career conversations and career plans for your direct reports

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience

• Minimum of8 years of people management experience with an engineering team

• Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience

• Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above and experience managing managers

• Must have experience building or integrating with AI products

• Must have worked in a platform team or a developer-facing API product with both internal and external consumers

• Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc

• Must be results-driven, especially good at balancing execution predictability with the agility needed in bringing a new product to market

• Experience shipping AI-powered features in production, collaborating closely with ML engineers and product teams

• Strong backend engineering skills with systems that support model serving, inference, and data pipelines at scale

• Strong background in AI agent infrastructure and building AI agents

• Ability to evaluate AI models for a specific use case and advise on build vs buy decisions

• Expertise in distributed systems architecture — designing for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and graceful degradation in multi-service environments.

US Zone 1
$248,200—$335,800 USD

US Zone 2
$223,400—$302,200 USD

US Zone 3
$198,600—$268,600 USD

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