Senior Software Engineer, Core Data

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI. 

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 Core Data team’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and easy-to-use services for near-realtime access to our users’ data graphs. Developers at Box routinely face challenges of serving millions of requests per second, while providing enterprise-grade uptime, consistency and performance guarantees. Our goal is to let them focus on business logic, while we make sure the data layer lives up to their requirements. As a member of this team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box.

Collaborating with several teams across our relational data tier, you will develop and scale our near-realtime data access interfaces that provide a change data stream of all actions performed on the graph and a highly scalable data warehouse that can support complex data processing. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases, enhance the interfaces to support those use cases and drive wider adoption across engineering. You will advocate for and ensure that our services meet our availability, performance and reliability SLOs. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our core data tier into a truly self-contained platform.

For more insight into Box's data tier, please see the following:

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale
• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag
• Percona 2021 talk about building a Change Data Capture (CDC) stream on top of Statement-Based Replication (SBR)

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Help define the future of Core Data architecture in the cloud and evolve our systems towards it
• Work with team members to design novel approaches to addressing scale and observability challenges associated with exponentially increased usage of our data tier
• Develop services to identify, eliminate and prevent occurrences of data inconsistencies or corruptions
• Provide guidance to client engineering teams on how best to take advantage of our near-realtime interfaces
• Drive wider adoption of our near-realtime interfaces across engineering by identifying compatible use cases
• Develop and implement initiatives to ensure our systems consistently meet availability, performance and reliability SLOs

   

WHO YOU ARE:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles
• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with Java/Scala, MySQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery
• Passionate about database scale and performance challenges
• Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication

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". 

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