Dropbox

Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

Remote US
Spring
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Description
Please note: 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. If your anticipated graduation date falls within this range, we encourage you to wait and apply when our undergrad-level application opens. To stay informed, please complete this form, and we’ll notify you when the application is available.

Role Description

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.
For Summer 2025, we offer two start dates culminating in a 12-week internship:
  • 5/27 - 8/15
  • 6/24 - 9/12

 Responsibilities

  1. Innovative Development: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and deploy next-gen features for Dropbox's suite of products.
  2. Agile Learning: Immerse yourself in rapid prototyping, iterative development, and harness the power of structured feedback from your host team.
  3. User-Centric Focus: Ensure solutions are designed with the end-user in mind, emphasizing usability and intuitive design.
  4. Tech Exploration: Participate in tech talks, professional development workshops, to explore new technologies and tools.
  5. 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.

Requirements

  • 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)
 
US Pay Range
$8,000$9,500 USD

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