This role is designed for a heavyweight technical leader with at least 12 years of experience who thrives at the intersection of product strategy and platform e
Work type: remote
Location: Remote - US: Select locations
Salary: $223,400 – $302,200/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is designed for a heavyweight technical leader with at least 12 years of experience who thrives at the intersection of product strategy and platform engineering. You should be a full-stack expert (React/Python/Go) with a proven track record of architecting high-scale systems, specifically within monetization, payments, or SaaS subscription models. As a Staff Engineer, you aren’t just coding; you are a mentor to 15+ engineers and a strategic partner to Product and Data Science teams. The compensation is highly competitive, reaching up to **$302,200** for Zone 2 locations, alongside the stability of a mature tech giant and the flexibility of a fully remote "Virtual First" environment. This is a high-visibility position where your work on AI-driven personalization and conversion funnels directly impacts the company’s bottom line, offering a rare blend of technical complexity and measurable business influence. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have 12+ years of experience and have spent at least 3 years in a Staff-level leadership role. * Want to build AI-forward solutions for complex checkout, trial, and pricing systems. * Enjoy balancing hands-on architecture with high-level technical roadmapping and mentorship. * Are comfortable participating in an on-call rotation to ensure the reliability of revenue-critical systems.
## Role Description
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Growth Monetization team within Core Growth Engineering, you will play a crucial role in optimizing how millions of users discover, trial, and purchase Dropbox products. You'll lead technical strategy for our checkout, trial, conversion, and subscription systems—directly impacting revenue growth and customer retention.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact role where you'll architect and build AI-forward solutions to personalize the customer journey, optimize conversion funnels, and reduce churn. You'll partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to define the future of Dropbox monetization while mentoring a team of 15 engineers across experience levels.
Your work will have immediate, measurable business impact. You'll get substantial exposure to Growth leadership, shape the technical direction of a critical revenue-driving platform, and help build a best-in-class monetization engineering practice.
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
## Requirements
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$223,400—$302,200 USD
US Zone 3
$198,600—$268,600 USD