Backend Product Software Engineer - Product Trust
Role Description
As a Software Engineer on the Product Trust team at Dropbox, you will play a critical role in building scalable and intelligent security solutions to detect and prevent abuse, enhance behavioral intelligence, and protect user trust. You will design, develop, and optimize systems that leverage data-driven insights, real-time detection mechanisms, and machine learning models to identify and mitigate threats. Working closely with security, ML, and data teams, you will drive innovation in abuse prevention while ensuring the reliability and performance of our trust and safety infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a strong background in backend development, distributed systems, and security engineering, with a passion for protecting users from evolving threats.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company 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.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and deploy software to detect and mitigate security threats, such as account takeovers, phishing, and malicious content distribution.
Collaborating closely with Threat Intelligence, Safety & Legal, and Security Engineering teams to understand security needs and develop software that meet those needs.
Developing and executing short and long-term roadmaps, balancing business impact, user experience, and technical quality.
Actively contributing to our team and company culture through mentorship, participation in interviews, and involvement in new initiatives.
Supporting fellow engineers through feedback, code reviews, and improvement of internal tools and processes.
Ensure continuous service operation by participating in the team's on-call rotation, including outside core collaboration hours on a periodic basis.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
Proven track record in identifying and delivering software solutions through a set of milestones spanning a specific product focus or a multi-component system
Developed and shipped large-scale web applications with a user-centric mindset.
Proficiency in building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for web and/or desktop platforms.
Familiarity with security domains such as phishing detection and account takeover prevention.
Preferred Qualifications
Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
Experience working with ML models
Technologies: TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Python, MySQL, Go, Java, Rust
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$177,500—$240,100 USD
US Zone 3
$157,800—$213,400 USD
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Backend Product Software Engineer - Product Trust
Role Description
As a Software Engineer on the Product Trust team at Dropbox, you will play a critical role in building scalable and intelligent security solutions to detect and prevent abuse, enhance behavioral intelligence, and protect user trust. You will design, develop, and optimize systems that leverage data-driven insights, real-time detection mechanisms, and machine learning models to identify and mitigate threats. Working closely with security, ML, and data teams, you will drive innovation in abuse prevention while ensuring the reliability and performance of our trust and safety infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a strong background in backend development, distributed systems, and security engineering, with a passion for protecting users from evolving threats.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company 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.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and deploy software to detect and mitigate security threats, such as account takeovers, phishing, and malicious content distribution.
Collaborating closely with Threat Intelligence, Safety & Legal, and Security Engineering teams to understand security needs and develop software that meet those needs.
Developing and executing short and long-term roadmaps, balancing business impact, user experience, and technical quality.
Actively contributing to our team and company culture through mentorship, participation in interviews, and involvement in new initiatives.
Supporting fellow engineers through feedback, code reviews, and improvement of internal tools and processes.
Ensure continuous service operation by participating in the team's on-call rotation, including outside core collaboration hours on a periodic basis.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
Proven track record in identifying and delivering software solutions through a set of milestones spanning a specific product focus or a multi-component system
Developed and shipped large-scale web applications with a user-centric mindset.
Proficiency in building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for web and/or desktop platforms.
Familiarity with security domains such as phishing detection and account takeover prevention.
Preferred Qualifications
Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
Experience working with ML models
Technologies: TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Python, MySQL, Go, Java, Rust
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$177,500—$240,100 USD
US Zone 3
$157,800—$213,400 USD