Senior Software Engineer, Search & Query Infra

Senior Software Engineer, Search & Query Infra

Redwood City, CA, United States

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.

The Search and Query Infrastructure team at Box owns and operates a highly scalable and performant platform to support fast, reliable, and secure discovery of enterprise content through both full‑text search and metadata‑based queries. We index petabytes of content and serve a high volume of queries with low latency and high availability. Our systems are the foundation of not only the Box Search experience, but also powers BoxAI features that enable smarter, faster insights for our customers.

We work on complex distributed systems problems involving data sharding, intelligent routing, global data replication, performance optimization, and near real‑time indexing — all  operate mission‑critical infrastructure and continuously innovate to improve search quality, speed, and relevance.

As we continue our mission to deliver a next‑generation platform, 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, as we build out the future of content management in the cloud. The work you do will have an immediate impact on the productivity of millions of users, at some of the most important enterprises of our time.

• Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform, from the ground up
• 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, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection
• Participate in our on‑call rotation, available at all times while on‑call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

• 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 in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, Python)
• You have experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/Pub Sub
• 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.

• Proficiency in an object oriented language such as Java, Scala, or C++
• BS+ degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proficiency with distributed systems
• 5+ years of industry experience

• Familiarity…