
Software Engineer intern (Summer 2026)
- Canada
- 6.500-7.500 $ par mois
- Stage
- Temps-plein
- May 26 - August 14, 2026
- June 30 - Sep 18, 2026
- 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
, one of our fastest-growing AI products. Our team is tackling complex challenges across distributed systems, data platforms, and AI-powered experiences. You'll join a high-impact, collaborative environment where engineers partner closely with Product and Design to shape what we build and how we build it. 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.
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), graduating in Fall/Winter 2026 or Spring 2027. 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 2026 full-time internship (40 hours per week /12 weeks)
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that's wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Monthly Internet Allowance
- Intern Social Stipend
- Annual Emerging Talent Summit, travel and hotel accommodations provided
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
- Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance*
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance*
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that's wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
- Mental health and wellness benefits