Software Engineer III, Storage Content

WHAT IS BOX? 

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 Storage Content team is the engineering backbone of Box's content infrastructure, responsible for building and evolving the systems that power all content storage and encryption across the platform. We architect, develop, and maintain the complete ecosystem that manages customer content and cryptographic key material, owning the foundational services within the Box’s Intelligent Content Cloud, including the core upload and download pipelines that handle millions of requests from users worldwide every day.

Operating at exabyte scale, we tackle complex engineering challenges around performance, reliability, and scalability—particularly as Box continues to expand and integrate with emerging products like Microsoft Coauthoring and Box AI. This involves significant software development work across distributed systems, storage technologies, and encryption services, where every optimization and architectural decision has massive impact. As stewards of some of the most mission-critical systems at Box, we're deeply invested in operational excellence and reliability best practices, yet we've only scratched the surface of what's possible in terms of performance optimization and innovative storage solutions.

As we embark on the mission to deliver best-in-class performance and reliability for our customers, both internal and external, we're looking for a Software Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role. You'll have the opportunity to work with a small team of talented, collaborative engineers, learning from and working alongside domain experts while solving some of the toughest challenges in distributed systems and content management. The work you do will have immediate impact on the productivity of some of the most important enterprises of our time, while providing exceptional opportunities for career growth and technical development in large-scale infrastructure engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform.

• Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.

• Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark and Istio.

• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team by championing a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

WHO YOU ARE 

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.

Required skills

• You have 3+ years of professional software development experience.

• You have experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment.

• You have a proven track record of building services and/or tooling using languages such as Java, Go, Scala, or Python as necessary.

• Strong problem solving skills and a desire to learn new things.

Preferred skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with distributed systems and content streaming

• Familiarity with metrics based monitoring and alerting

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. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

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. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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