Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Technical Program Manager role sits at the intersection of product delivery and platform reliability—an increasingly central function in modern SaaS where customer value depends on coordinated execution across services, data, and user-facing experiences. With Dropbox operating at large-scale usage and multiple product lines, the work is naturally oriented around systems that must perform consistently under real-world load and evolving requirements.
For a SaaS career, program leadership at this level builds durable leverage: translating ambiguous technical work into sequenced outcomes, aligning engineering and product stakeholders, and creating operating mechanisms that reduce delivery risk over time. Experience coordinating across infrastructure, security, data, and application teams is especially transferable in SaaS organisations that manage multi-tenant complexity, platform dependencies, and continuous release cycles.
This role is best suited to program managers who prefer structured problem-solving over direct ownership of a single feature area, and who are comfortable navigating trade-offs across multiple engineering disciplines. It will appeal to professionals who like making progress visible through planning, metrics, and clear decision-making, while staying close enough to the technical details to unblock teams and keep delivery grounded in reality.
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Job Description
The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. 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.
Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.
