Software Engineer III, Metadata

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the world’s leading Intelligent 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? 

Metadata is a key component of the Box Intelligent Cloud, enabling customers to add additional context to their files and transforming them into actionable content. In the current iteration, it's used to organize, discover, annotate, secure, and retain content. Metadata Platform adoption continues to grow exponentially as more Box products, like Shield, Relay, Forms, Sign, Governance, etc, rely on it internally and as our customers continue to build custom applications leveraging it.

But, we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. That's where you come in!

As we embark on the mission to deliver a next-generation Metadata Platform, we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role. You'll have the opportunity to work with a team of talented, collaborative, and fun engineers, solving some of the toughest challenges, as we build out the future of intelligent content management in the cloud. The work you do will have an immediate and lasting impact on the productivity of millions of users, at some of the most important enterprises of our time.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with partner teams and domain architects on system design and services integration.
• Be heavily involved in defining the vision and assembling feature roadmaps.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, and Istio.
• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.

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.

WHO YOU ARE 

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficient in Java, familiarity with other scripting languages like Python, Scala or PHP is a plus.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy high-quality software.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
• Skilled in designing and developing APIs.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB preferred.
• Passionate about new technologies with the capability to implement them in existing products.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Azure.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 50% coding
• 10% documentation
• 30% bug fixes
• 10% meetings

Methodology

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

BENEFITS
Check out the overview of the benefits and additional perks offered at Box.

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 3 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 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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