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Trusted by millions, our mission is to integrate security seamlessly into Dropbox, empowering confident collaboration. \nIn 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.\nOur Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. 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