Data Engineer at Dropbox in Remote - US: Select locations
- Company: Dropbox
- Location: Remote - US: Select locations
- Posted: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $120,900—$163,500 USD (Zone 2), $107,400—$145,400 USD (Zone 3)
- Experience: 4+ years
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Zones are determined by your zip code; if you’re within 100 miles of a listed metro area (straight-line radius), you’re included in that Zone. Please check your Zone in the Compensation section below.
Job description
- Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Zones are determined by your zip code; if you’re within 100 miles of a listed metro area (straight-line radius), you’re included in that Zone. Please check your Zone in the Compensation section below.
- As a Data Engineer on Analytics Data Engineering, you will build and operate the pipelines and data models the rest of Dropbox relies on to understand its products and its business. You will own well-scoped pipelines end to end — design, build, test, ship, monitor — with senior engineers alongside you for the harder architectural calls. Your work feeds the datamarts and KPIs used by data science, product, and company leadership, so the quality of what you build is visible quickly. This is a build-oriented team on a modern stack rather than a maintenance role, and a strong place to develop into an engineer who can own a full data domain.
- 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
- Build and maintain Spark and SparkSQL jobs that populate company data models
- Own well-scoped pipelines end to end, from requirements through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Contribute to data quality frameworks, testing, and data lineage instrumentation
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and engineers to turn data needs into durable models
- Extend datamarts and data models supporting recurring reporting and analysis across products
- Improve the reliability and cost efficiency of existing pipelines, dashboards, and frameworks
- Participate in a business-hours on-call rotation and help improve runbooks and alerting
- 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
- 2+ years of development experience in Spark, Python, Java, C++, or Scala
- 2+ years of SQL experience, including query performance tuning
- 2+ years of experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
- Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines that others depend on
- Working exposure to a cloud data lake or lakehouse platform, Databricks preferred
- Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineering partners, and a track record of asking for help and feedback early
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- 4+ years of SQL experience
- Experience with medallion architectures and incremental data modeling patterns
- Experience with Airflow or a similar orchestration framework
- Exposure to data quality monitoring using Monte Carlo or similar tools
- Exposure to streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Structured Streaming)
Skills
Required
- Spark
- Python
- Java
- C++
- Scala
- SQL
- Schema design
- Dimensional data modeling
- Production data pipelines
- Cloud data lake or lakehouse platform
- Databricks (preferred)
- Clear written and verbal communication
Preferred
- Medallion architectures
- Incremental data modeling patterns
Benefits
- US Zone 1
- This role is not available in Zone 1
- US Zone 2
- US Zone 3
- The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change. Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.
- Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.
- Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
- US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
- US Zone 2: California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Illinois (Chicago metro), Indiana (Chicago metro), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan (Chicago metro), New Hampshire, New Jersey (outside NYC metro), New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (D.C. metro), Pennsylvania (outside NYC metro), Texas (Austin metro) Virginia (DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro, West Virginia (DC metro), Wisconsin (Chicago metro)
- US Zone 3: All other US locations
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About Dropbox
Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for designing a more enlightened way of working. We’re a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers shaping the future of Dropbox and, in turn, the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, creating space for meaningful work and lasting relationships. With a startup mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, we expect Dropbox employees to think critically, stay curious, and use modern tools, including AI, to improve how work gets done. Here, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. You own your impact, helping make work more intuitive, joyful, and human for yourself and hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you’re ready to push boundaries and challenge yourself, Dropbox is ready for you. The Dropbox Engineering Team develops the technology, platforms, and products that create more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Customers rely on Dropbox to manage, share, and collaborate on content seamlessly—our engineering makes that easier and more intuitive than ever before.Our platform features a robust systems software layer that stores and processes exabytes of data, and a suite of growing services that enhance core products like our sharing and sync engine. We’re also driving innovation with new offerings such as Dash, our AI-powered knowledge management engine. Our infrastructure spans high-performance servers and cutting-edge components across multiple data centers worldwide, ensuring reliability, speed, and scalability at a global scale. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team.