Senior Security Engineer, AI Security

About the Role

Role Description Security Engineers at Dropbox safeguard our digital ecosystem alongside a diverse team of professionals dedicated to protecting our products and users. Trusted by millions, our mission is to integrate security seamlessly into Dropbox, empowering confident collaboration. In this role, you’ll help shape how Dropbox secures AI systems and agentic workflows, building and operating the controls that protect the infrastructure, tools, and data they rely on. You’ll tackle challenges such as prompt injection, secure agent access, and MCP integrations, turning emerging risks into practical, reusable safeguards. Partnering across engineering and security, you’ll lead hands-on work that enables teams to adopt AI safely while protecting customer data. 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 Design, deploy and operate infrastructure-level security controls for Dropbox's AI and agentic infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and data stores. Design and implement secure authentication, authorization and networking patterns for AI agents and other non-human actors Lead security implementation for secure usage of AI tools and governance. Maintain a high and continuously improving bar for the security of Dropbox infrastructure in order to protect customer data. Review the current and upcoming infrastructure stack from a security perspective and provide hardening mechanisms and recommendations. Deploy, build, and/or operate security infrastructure solutions to help scale and raise the security bar for Dropbox’s on-prem and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with cross functional teams and lead security initiatives to influence product decisions and enhance security posture. Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations,

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.