Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to our Compensation section below to see what neighborhoods fall under each Zone.

Company Description

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Team Description

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

Role Description

Are you passionate about solving complex business challenges with data? Do you thrive at the intersection of business strategy and technical expertise? As a Business Intelligence Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to design, build, and deliver data-driven solutions that empower teams to make smarter, faster decisions.

Join us and help create impactful insights and scalable tools that shape how we grow, market, and deliver world-class products to our customers. This role is perfect for someone who loves turning messy data into actionable insights and building lasting partnerships across diverse teams.

A successful candidate will have passion for creating accessible and intuitive data models, knowledge of data warehouse modeling best practices and tradeoffs (dimensional data modeling, Kimball, Inmon, etc.), an obsession with data quality and cleanliness, an expertise in data visualization best practices, understanding the right design approach to use for a given audience, and customer obsession and accountability to partners. Their problems are your problems.

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

• Partner Strategically: Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering teams to understand their goals and challenges. Your work will directly influence decision-making across the organization.
• Build Solutions: Design, develop, and maintain reliable data pipelines and models that turn raw data into meaningful insights. Your work will simplify complex concepts into user-friendly dashboards and visualizations.
• Drive Impact: Identify trends, diagnose problems, and craft solutions using metrics, reporting tools, and predictive models.
• Ensure Quality: Maintain high standards for data governance, privacy, and security while ensuring data quality and reliability.
• Communicate Insights: Translate data into compelling stories, empowering stakeholders at all levels to take action.

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

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
• 5+ years of Python development experience
• 5+ years of SQL experience (Spark and Snowflake-specific SQL is a plus)
• 5+ years of experience with schema design, dimensional data modeling, and scalable data architecture
• Demonstrable track record managing, communicating, and collaborating with internal clients on data platform plans and capabilities
• Experience designing, building and maintaining data processing systems
• Experience working with data at significant scale and optimizing queries and pipelines
• Experience with BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI, etc) and dbt is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of Spark SQL and non-SQL Spark development experience
• 4+ years of Snowflake development experience
• 4+ years of development of Airflow data pipelines
• 4+ years of Databricks platform experience including Spark and Databricks development tooling

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$145,400—$196,600 USD

US Zone 3

$129,200—$174,800 USD

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: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington DC metro, and West Virginia (DC metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
• Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
• Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
• Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
• Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.to, making it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
• Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Disability and neurodivergence support benefits

Additional benefit details are available upon request.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).