About the position
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 AstraZeneca, 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly-available, scalable, and resilient distributed backend services that form the core of our platform.
- Develop systems for managing data across multiple geographic regions, solving complex challenges related to data sovereignty and compliance.
- Collaborate with your team, product managers and other engineering teams to define and implement the APIs and services that power Box's platform.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high standards of quality.
- Mentor other engineers on the team, promoting best practices in software development and distributed systems design.
- Take ownership of the entire software lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Participate in our on-call rotation, while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a proven track record of building and shipping complex, large-scale services.
- Deep expertise in designing and working with distributed systems, understanding the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and performance.
- Proficient in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
- Experience with data-intensive applications, search technologies (like Elasticsearch or Solr), and/or database and query systems (SQL or NoSQL).
- A product-minded engineer who thinks about the 'why' behind the 'what' and is passionate about solving customer problems.
- Strong sense of ownership and comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.
Benefits
- 401k
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- unlimited PTO
- tuition reimbursement
- professional development
- employee stock purchase plan
- flexible scheduling
- paid holidays
- paid volunteer time
- maternity leave
- paternity leave
- mental health days
- gym membership
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- relocation assistance
- sign on bonus
- performance bonus
- conference allowance
- continued education
- employee bonus referral program
