Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundations

Description

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:

You will join a newly formed Data Foundations team within Core Data, responsible for building, operating, and evolving the asynchronous data services that support Box’s data infrastructure. The team helps ensure that data remains reliable, consistent, and synchronized across different systems and data stores, supporting a wide range of services and internal teams across Box.

The team will take ownership of a number of existing services and work on improving their reliability, observability, scalability, and overall architecture. This is an opportunity to work on foundational, large-scale data infrastructure and help shape the evolution of a new team and its platform.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve asynchronous data services that support data synchronization across Box’s systems and data stores.
• Take ownership of existing services and help improve their reliability, scalability, observability, and overall architecture.
• Design and implement new services and improvements to support growing data volumes and evolving platform requirements.
• Help ensure data remains consistent and reliable across different data stores and downstream systems.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and consolidate existing services and improve the overall data platform.
• Collaborate with engineers and teams across Core Data and Box to understand data requirements, dependencies, and technical challenges.
• Participate in the operation and continuous improvement of production services, including troubleshooting and addressing reliability or performance issues.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the Data Foundations platform as the new team and its ownership evolve.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Requirements

• 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.
• Strong backend engineer with 5+ years of Software Development experience, ideally working with distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Java or Scala and experience building production backend services.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying highly available, scalable, and reliable distributed systems.
• Experience working with asynchronous systems, data processing, messaging, or event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of data consistency, synchronization, and reliability across distributed systems and data stores.
• Experience taking ownership of production services, including troubleshooting, performance improvements, observability, and reliability.
• Comfortable working with existing systems and identifying opportunities to simplify, consolidate, and improve architecture.
• You have a passion for solving complex technical problems and building large-scale data infrastructure.
• You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• You speak English proficiently.
• Methodology
• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool -Jira
• Knowledge repository - GitHubEnterprise
• Code reviews - GitHubEntreprise
• Version control system - GIT

Benefits

• Check out the overview of Life at Box which include general perks and benefits.
• 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. 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!