Software Engineer III, Cloud Native

What is Box?

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Why Box needs you:

Cloud Native’s mission is to transform how Boxers build services, enabling them to deliver exceptional products. We provide a unified platform for configuring, deploying, and running Box services seamlessly, securely, reliably, and efficiently across optimal regions worldwide. The organization consists of three teams: two in California and one in Warsaw. The team in Poland focuses on enhancing the Platform Developer Experience. Our goal is to empower every developer to reach their highest potential by creating a delightful and straight-forward user experience and hiding the complexity of the cloud solutions.

We are currently working on developing a new system to replace the existing service configuration system. This new system aims to simplify GCP deployment by abstracting away Kubernetes internals from users.

What you'll do:

• Develop a comprehensive service configuration system in TypeScript, built on top of cdk8s.
• Build safe and robust pipelines for Kubernetes rollouts based on Argo and Kargo.
• Improve sidecar rollout process.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
• Patch security vulnerabilities by upgrading libraries used in our services to meet strict FedRamp requirements.
• Proactively and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work closely with developers to ensure that their applications are properly deployed and configured in Kubernetes.
• Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture in the newly opened Warsaw office.
• Participate in the production on-call duties rotation with team members.

Who you are: 

• You have hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native architecture on platforms such as GCP or AWS.
• You possess strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
• You have experience architecting, designing, operationalizing container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• You have a proven track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple programming languages (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, Groovy).
• You are a technical expert who can provide guidance on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment.
• You actively engage in feedback processes, contribute to code reviews, and play a role in enhancing team processes and practices.
• You must speak English proficiently.

Additional points for: 

• Experience with ServiceMesh technologies such as Istio or any other Envoy based Service Meshes.
• Experience contributing to open source project

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 35% coding
• 20% operational tasks
• 10% documentation
• 20% bug fixes
• 15% meetings

Methodology

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHub Entreprise 
• Version control system - Git

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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

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". For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice. For more details on how Box Poland protects your information, please see our Supplemental Personnel and Candidate Privacy Notice. 

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