Senior Software Engineer, Storage Content

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Content

Redwood City, California

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.

The Storage Content team is the backbone of storage and encryption  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.

• 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, Big Table, 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, principals, 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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