# Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Dropbox

- Company: Dropbox
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Remote - US: Select locations
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Data
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply: https://jobs.dropbox.com/listing/8090062?gh_jid=8090062

## Description

Role Description
 We are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead the team responsible for Dropbox’s underlying data foundations that power our business as a whole. This is a hands-on engineering leader who owns the pipelines and data products that Product, GTM, Finance, and the CTO organization depend on to make decisions. 
 In this role, you will lead and grow a team of data engineers building and operating our ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers, as well as the self-serve analytics substrate that lets partner teams answer their own questions without bespoke engineering work. 
 The ideal candidate is a deeply technical, product-minded engineering leader who can hold a high bar on system reliability and data quality while partnering closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence Engineering, Analytics, and Product to turn fragmented, ticket-driven data work into durable, reusable data products. 
 Responsibilities
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 Data Quality & Observability: Establish and enforce a rigorous data quality culture: lineage, freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, and outcome-oriented, gaming-resistant quality metrics. 
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 Self-Serve Platform: Lead the engineering of the self-serve analytics substrate, reducing bespoke request volume and increasing partner-team autonomy. 
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 Cost & Efficiency: Own the unit economics of the data platform — compute and storage efficiency — and drive measurable improvements without sacrificing reliability. 
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 Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner deeply with Data Science, BIE, Analytics, Product, Data Platform, and t

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