The Developer Infrastructure team at Dropbox is looking to improve the productivity of their engineers by developing AI-powered tools that will streamline the code writing, testing, and shipping process. This aims to reduce friction, eliminate repetitive tasks, and enhance code quality, ultimately enabling faster and more reliable delivery of features and services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficient in programming and debugging across a range of languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java
- Experience designing and building internal tools, developer platforms, or productivity systems that scale across large engineering organizations
- Proficiency in AI/ML concepts
- Familiarity with modern AI-powered developer tools, frameworks, and APIs.
- Experience driving initiatives in the developer productivity space
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual toil, and improve code quality at scale
- Leverage AI to automate and enhance key stages of the development lifecycle, including code reviews, testing, documentation, and debugging
- Evaluate and integrate AI-powered software development tools into our existing development environment to enhance productivity and code quality
- Provide technical support and guidance to ensure smooth adoption and effective use of AI tooling within engineering workflows
- Research, recommend, and pilot new AI tools and frameworks that could benefit our software engineering processes.
- Define and track success metrics for AI tools, using data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement and prioritize future investments
- Define and promote best practices for the safe, responsible, and observable use of AI in software development, working closely with security and compliance teams
Other
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-changing environments; proactively brings clarity, structure, and direction when faced with uncertainty
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to gather feedback, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and work directly with engineers to iterate on solutions
- Proven track record of defining & delivering well-scoped milestones/projects
- Ability to independently define right solutions for ambiguous, open-ended problems
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
