Role Description
Please note: This role will remain open until 10/02/2026. Dropbox currently only offers Summer internships May - September and cannot accommodate off cycle internships at this time. Please inform your recruiter if you have upcoming deadlines for Summer 2027 internships.
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.
What you'd do
- Create Impact: Ship a high-priority project from start to finish, directly contributing to mission-critical software development. Along the way, build AI proficiency by leveraging tools like Copilot to boost productivity and code quality.
- 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.
- Team Matching: You play an active part in the team matching process.
- Prior to final round technical interviews, we’ll send you a detailed 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.
- Mentorship: Receive 1:1 mentorship and guidance from your team, a mentor, and a peer mentor.
- These dedicated industry professionals help you gain insights into the tech world while enabling your success through meaningful work, clear guidance, and a supportive environment.
- Continuous Feedback: Receive real time and written actionable feedback and reviews on a regular cadence to help drive your development over the course of the internship.
- 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.
- 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.
What they want
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), graduating in Fall/Winter 2027 or Spring 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating
- Experience writing or shipping software as part of coursework, personal projects, internships, coding competitions or research
- Experience coding in programming languages, such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages
- Passion for learning, solving problems, and challenging the status quo
- Available for Summer 2027 full-time internship (40 hours per week /12 weeks)
- Although this is a virtual internship, interns are expected to work from their designated primary work location throughout the 12-week program.
- Any request to work from another location, including another country, must be approved in advance and may be restricted based on applicable company, legal, payroll, or security requirements
- Awareness: Understand yourself and others.
- Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.
- Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.
- Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.