Senior Product Backend Software Engineer, Dash

About this role

Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.


Role Description


As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Platform / Evaluation Platform team within the Dropbox Dash organization, you will design and build the core systems that enable agents to reason, plan, and act on behalf of users. You will focus on the orchestration and evaluation infrastructure that powers Dash, Dropbox’s AI-first productivity product, and will serve as a foundation for future internal and external agents.


You will play a crucial role in areas such as multi-agent orchestration, planning and coordination, real-time execution, and continuous evaluation of agent behavior. You will define and implement the core APIs, data models, and platform capabilities that other teams across Dropbox will rely on to build intelligent, agentic experiences.


You will work closely with AI research, infra, and product teams, gaining exposure to senior leadership and helping shape the architectural and cultural foundations of Dropbox’s AI platform. This is a highly visible, high-impact role at a pivotal moment in Dropbox’s AI journey.


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Responsibilities

• Design and build the orchestration and planning systems that power Dropbox’s agent platform, including task decomposition, scheduling, and error recovery.
• Implement real-time execution frameworks that allow multiple agents and tools to coordinate and act reliably at scale.
• Develop clean, extensible APIs, data models, and protocols that enable new agent capabilities to plug seamlessly into the platform.
• Build and maintain the evaluation platform used to measure agent performance (ac...