WHAT IS BOX?
Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with e nterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal.
By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies, who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle. Our Warsaw office is an incredibly exciting addition to our EMEA expansion. We're already in UK, France, and Germany, and the new Poland location will act as a global engineering and product development hub alongside our headquarters in Redwood City, California.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU?
The Content Capabilities team is relatively new and is tasked with the ambitious goal of supporting the Box Content Cloud’s next 10x wave of growth . We aim to achieve this by building innovative new platform capabilities, enabling our product teams and customers to build intuitive and differentiated experiences that scale to millions of users.
We’re close to delivering the first set of features, unlocking new use cases and significantly increasing the scale at which users can collaborate on content. The team is just getting started though and has a strong roadmap of new capabilities to build. That's where you come in!
As we embark on this journey, we're looking for a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join us and play an important role. You'll have the opportunity to work with a small team of talented, collaborative, and fun people, solving some of the toughest challenges in the content management space. The work you do will have an immediate impact on the productivity of millions of users, at some of the most important enterprises of our time.
WHAT YOU'LL DO?
Work closely with engineering leadership to develop strategies for evolving the platform to its next generation.
Collaborate with product management to help refine requirements, break down complex projects into meaningful, deliverable units and lead the effort.
Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
Continually improve the current code base and infrastructure patterns.
Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark, and Istio.
Mentor new engineers and interns, contribute to team growth and development.
WHO YOU ARE?
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
3+ years of professional software development experience building high-scale services.
Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in languages like Java, Scala, Go, C or C++.
You have experience designing, building, and deploying high quality software.
You are excited about solving complex technical problems using data-driven solutions.
You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions.
BONUS POINTS FOR
Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.
Experience with message queues and/or streaming platforms (ex. Google Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka).
Experience building, deploying, and operating microservices on Kubernetes.
PERCENTAGE OF TIME SPENT
20% design
50% coding
10% documentation
10% bug fixes
10% meetings
TOOLS WE'RE USING
Messaging - Slack
Ticketing/Planning - JIRA
Build server - Jenkins
Virtualization - Kubernetes
Cloud infrastructure - currently on-prem, being migrated to GCP
Application stack - Java microservices on Kubernetes, PHP monolith
Queue/Stream - Kafka, being migrated to Google Pub/Sub
Databases - MySQL
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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