Software Engineer III, Events Processing
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Box scores B on the Alion truth index.
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
The Events Processing team provides the foundational infrastructure for asynchronous event processing and job execution all while delivering the right data at the right time across Box! Teams rely on our services for rule evaluation and distributed job management at scale to guarantee reliable execution of their workloads, including ensuring customers' files are indexed for search and converted for preview across our platforms.
Events Platform is currently expanding into its next generation through a growing adoption by more Box products and into new use cases and we're seeking for a Software Engineer III to join our team to help shape that future. You'll have the opportunity to be a part of and collaborate across high impact teams, architect new solutions, and work with a broad and modern tech stack of cloud-native services. The work you do will have a meaningful impact for millions of users every day.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Istio.
Play a significant role in shaping the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
Provide mentorship to fellow engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
Enhance engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.
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 at least 3+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience building distributed services and APIs for internal backend systems in the enterprise applications space
You have a proven track record of building services and/or tooling in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, Python).
You have experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub.
Ability to lead and deliver large projects with minimal supervision, and to work independently or as part of a larger team.
Preferred skills
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Azure.
Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.
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.
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Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.
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Redwood City Pay Range
$165,000—$206,500 USD