Senior Software Engineer, Storage Content

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

The Storage Content team is the backbone of storage and encryption at Box. We manage the entire corpus of customer content and key material, powering the critical infrastructure that all content at Box flows through. Our team owns several foundational services of the Box Content Cloud, including the core upload and download pipelines used by millions of users every day.

We operate at exabyte scale, solving complex challenges around performance, reliability, and scalability—especially as Box continues to expand and integrate with emerging products like Microsoft Coauthoring and Box AI.

As stewards of some of the most mission-critical systems at Box, we’re deeply invested in operational excellence and reliability best practices. Yet, we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible. That’s where you come in.

As we embark on the mission to deliver best in class performance and reliability for our customers, both internal and external, we're looking for a Senior Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role. You'll have the opportunity to work with a small team of talented, collaborative and fun engineers, solving some of the toughest challenges. The work you do will have an immediate impact on the productivity of some of the most important enterprises of our time.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform.
• Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark and Istio.
• Be heavily involved in setting the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team by championing a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

WHO YOU ARE

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Required skills

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• You have extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment.
• You have a proven track record of building services and/or tooling using languages such as Java, Go, Scala, or Python as necessary.
• Strong problem solving skills and a desire to learn new things.
• We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Preferred skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and content streaming.
• Familiarity with metrics based monitoring and alerting.

Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture. Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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