Software Engineer III, CaaS

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:

The CaaS team is a core infrastructure team that builds all the container and VM images in accordance with our compliance requirements and runs software and services that are used to automate all aspects of Box's Infrastructure and can be leveraged by the entire Engineering org. Keeping up with rapid customer growth is an ongoing challenge. Therefore, our main job is to build intelligent and sustainable software to do just that. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to conceive, define, develop, deploy and operate solutions which help Box manage its infrastructure.

Our team is growing, and we are looking for an engineer with a passion for automation. You will spend your time working on internal systems which are used to automate image building, track metadata, build packages and their software bill of materials (SBOM) and perform automated operations in order to scale Box's infrastructure. To be successful you will conceive, define, develop, deploy and operate internal frameworks, tool and API’s which streamline our workflows and automate all aspects of our infrastructure. You will provide top tier support for our services and keep them highly available. You will drive technology decisions and ensure that we have a strong foundation to build on. You will improve our CI/CD processes to make software development and deployment as streamlined and simple as possible.

What you'll do:

• Develop in-house services and API's
• Programmatically automate infrastructure with orchestration tooling
• Write services that interact with other API’s
• Operate and maintain services that support our internal platforms
• Work with the team in developing frameworks and API's that enable functionality for the entire Engineering organization
• Identify problems, develop, deploy and maintain solutions which automate all aspects of Box’s Infrastructure
• Evangelize good code and solid engineering practices

Who you are: 

• 3+ years of experience working with Ruby or Python
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Strong troubleshooting skills to keep our services highly available
• Strong coding skills with a passion for writing clean, well tested and maintainable code
• Passion for learning and adopting new technologies
• Proficient in English

Additional points for: 

• F/OSS contributor
• Exposure running applications on Kubernetes
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins in Groovy
• Experience writing web applications in Go
• Experience with configuration management tools (such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
• Strong Linux admin skills

Technologies in use

• RHEL/UBI OS
• RPM
• Packer
• Groovy
• Ruby, Go, Python
• Puppet
• Choria
• InSpec

Methodology

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHub Enterprise 
• 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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