Software Backend Engineer III

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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.

Why Box needs you?

Our Warsaw office is an incredibly exciting addition to our EMEA expansion. We're already in the UK, France, and Germany, and the new Poland location is a global engineering and product development hub alongside our headquarters in Redwood City, California. Join our growing engineering teams in Warsaw as we expand by over 100 members in 2024! Depending on your skills, experience, and preferences, you’ll have the opportunity to join one of several teams to solve some of the toughest challenges as we build out the future of content management in the cloud. Your work will directly impact the productivity of millions of users at some of today’s most significant enterprises.

We are currently looking for the engineers for the following teams:

• 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.

• The Identity & Security Foundation (ISF) team owns the core authentication, identity, and secure access infrastructure that protects millions of users and enterprises on Box. We build and operate the services behind Login, Authorization, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO), OAuth, Device Trust, and Secure Access Controls. These systems are critical to every Box customer and every Box application across Web, Mobile, Desktop, and APIs. As part of ISF, you will work on highly available, security-sensitive services that sit directly on Box's most critical user journeys. Your work will have company-wide impact  and will be used by numerous teams across Box.

• The Evaluation Platform team builds the infrastructure that tests and evaluates our AI agents. We're looking for engineers who enjoy solving problems across system boundaries and aren't afraid to dive deep into unfamiliar domains. We rely heavily on GCP and Vertex AI, and our work spans everything from backend services and automation to infrastructure and developer tooling.

  If you enjoy switching between software engineering and DevOps responsibilities, you'll find plenty of opportunities to do both here. And while Python and Java are our primary languages, you'll occasionally work with React frontends, Jenkins pipelines, network-level hacks or even shell scripting.

What you’ll do:

• Develop high-quality, scalable, and responsive software using modern technologies.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using industry best practices.
• Work effectively with Designers, Product Managers and cross-functional global teams to deliver to deliver the high quality software and seamless user experience.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and improve team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and debug software defects to ensure smooth functionality.
• Collaborate effectively in an Agile development environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• 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: 

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in one ot the following programming languages such as Java, Python, Scala or PHP
• Familiarity with Node.js is a plus
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.
• Skilled in designing and developing APIs.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy high-quality software.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and object-oriented programming.
• Passionate about new technologies with the capability to implement them in existing products.
• Demonstrates ownership mentality and strives for excellence in both technical work and team interactions.
• Proficient in English.

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

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 55% coding
• 10% documentation
• 20% bug fixes
• 15% meetings

Methodology:

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

BENEFITS

Check out the overview of thebenefits 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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