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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Dropbox
- **Location:** Beaverton, OR, United States
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Elasticsearch, Flask (Web Framework), Dropbox
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_924714086c346495a1174544a937ff28

## About the Role

Dropbox is looking for a $167,000 - $237,000 Principal Software Engineer to join our Beaverton, OR office and accelerate our product roadmap. Picture this: an internship Principal Software Engineer seat in Beaverton, paying $167,000 - $237,000, where 10 years of doing the work earns you real say over how it gets done., * Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation

 * Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
 * Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
 * A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads

## Description

* Own the principal Collaboration workstream that unblocks the rest of Dropbox's Beaverton, OR roadmap
 * Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Elasticsearch
 * Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Dropbox users feel every click
 * Re-architect the technology flow so Rust handles ten times Beaverton's current load
 * Tune gRPC caching so Dropbox survives the Beaverton launch spike on the same hardware
 * Stitch Customer Service events into the Flask pipeline feeding Dropbox's technology reports
 * Lead Microsoft Azure design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Beaverton, OR builds them