Software Engineer Intern, Dropbox

Summer 2025

Salary not provided

$8,000—$9,500 (USD) per month

Remote in US
Dropbox

Smart workspace company

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Dropbox

Smart workspace company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

$8,000—$9,500 (USD) per month

Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Company mission

Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.

Role

Who you are

  • This application is exclusively for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 graduates. Our Software Engineering Intern application for Fall 2026 and 2027 graduates will open this December
  • Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), graduating in Fall 2025 or Spring 2026
  • Experience writing or shipping software as part of coursework, personal projects, internships, coding competitions or research
  • Passion for learning, solving problems, and challenging the status quo
  • Available for Summer 2025 full-time internship (40 hours per week / 12 weeks)

What the job involves

  • For Summer 2025, we offer two start dates culminating in a 12-week internship: 5/27 - 8/15 &
  • As a Software Engineering Intern, you'll work alongside seasoned professionals, diving deep into real-world challenges and pioneering solutions that impact millions
  • With a focus on the future of collaboration, you'll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects that define the next chapter of Dropbox
  • In our Virtual First work culture, you’ll connect with with Dropboxers virtually and in-person to build the foundation of a strong professional network
  • As a Summer intern, you will also have the opportunity to attend our Emerging Talent Summit, where participants from our intern and early-career programs come together in person to build lasting relationships, explore learning and development opportunities, and prepare for their career journey ahead
  • Innovative Development: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and deploy next-gen features for Dropbox's suite of products
  • Agile Learning: Immerse yourself in rapid prototyping, iterative development, and harness the power of structured feedback from your host team
  • User-Centric Focus: Ensure solutions are designed with the end-user in mind, emphasizing usability and intuitive design
  • Tech Exploration: Participate in tech talks, professional development workshops, to explore new technologies and tools
  • Mentorship: Receive 1:1 mentorship and guidance from your team of dedicated industry experts and mentors, gain insights into the tech world, and establish valuable connections
  • Teams and Projects:
  • You play an active part in the team matching process
  • Prior to final round technical interviews, we’ll send you an in-depth survey to understand your interests and strengths
  • These criteria as well as current business needs and your location are all factors we consider to match you closely with a host team
  • Here are some examples of the numerous types of roles and teams that you can have an impact on:
  • Product Engineering - Product Engineers thrive working across technologies and codebases, and are also involved in various product development cycle stages
  • Along the way they represent users needs through close partnership with product, design, and user research
  • In this role you will deliver best-in-breed software by building robust systems that power optimized user experiences on marquee projects like Dropbox Paper, Transfer, or Family
  • New Initiatives - Dropbox is exploring 0→1 opportunities and building new products that will make a difference in the lives of Dropbox customers and employees!
  • Ideally, you are at your best when you are in fast-paced and startup-like teams, building customer-facing products and having a deep curiosity which leads you to build side projects of your own
  • Infrastructure Engineering - The Infrastructure Engineering team designs products for vast scale
  • We craft components for millions of connections, oversee billions of files, and manage hundreds of petabytes of data
  • Our rigorous approach addresses edge cases and errors
  • Through refined code and thorough testing, we prioritize data integrity and security
  • Customer Experience (CX) - The CX Technology team enhances our business through innovative technology
  • You'll convert our service strategy into tools for customers and agents, advancing technical support capabilities
  • Your role simplifies problem-solving for our team, refines user interaction on our support site, integrates ticketing with internal systems, promotes secure development, and creates self-help tools for users
  • Mobile Engineering - Our Mobile team builds products and features that drive the core experience on the Dropbox mobile application
  • We enable users to easily manage their content, collaborate with their peers and work effortlessly with others
  • This position will play a key role in building and supporting mobile features
  • Security Engineering- People trust Dropbox to keep their data secure, and at Dropbox we rely on our security engineers to make our products safe
  • You are a software engineer with a deep interest in building software that is secure yet easy to use
  • Security engineers collaborate with product teams to secure our software, production infrastructure, website, desktop and mobile apps and our corporate infrastructure and devices

Our take

Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.

Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.

The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.

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3% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2014

$350m

SERIES C

Oct 2011

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $607.3m

Company benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
  • Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
  • Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
  • Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
  • Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
  • We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
  • No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
  • Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year

Company values

  • Be Worthy of Trust - Millions of teams trust us with their most important information. But this trust can vanish in an instant. That’s why integrity is the foundation of our culture. We do the right thing, even when nobody’s looking. And we’re honest—even when it’s uncomfortable
  • They win, We win - Our customers come first. So we put in the work to deeply understand them. We ask, “Who’s the customer?” and “What do they really need?” When they succeed, our business (and everything else) falls into place
  • Keep it Simple - Simple things work better—and make more sense. So we build products that do a few things really well. And we don’t overcomplicate life at Dropbox, whether it’s a plan or a process. Getting to simple isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the effort
  • Own it - We take responsibility for our work, from start to finish. When we get stuck, we unblock ourselves. When something goes wrong, we don’t ask, “What did they screw up?” but “What could I do better?” We learn from our mistakes and keep going—until we have real impact
  • Make work Human - Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working, for Dropboxers and the world. So we make products that prioritize our needs as humans. And we build a compassionate culture where you can do your best work—no matter who you are or where you’re from

Company HQ

Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

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