Senior Software Engineer, File Systems

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 tasked with the goal of furthering innovation and cohesiveness of the core Box experience. You will be combining existing File System and Metadata functionality, as well as brand new services to deliver a scalable, easy to use platform. With a roadmap of impactful new features, the Content Capabilities team has an exciting and challenging charter to enhance the experience of the millions of Box users. The team’s mission is to deliver a high-leverage platform, unlocking value at scale. That’s where you come in! As we embark on this journey, we’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a small team of talented, collaborative, and fun engineers, solving some of the toughest challenges, as we build out the future of content management in the cloud. 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 to deliver them. Continuously improve the current codebase and infrastructure. Model best practices in crafting systems and code with sound architectures, reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Communicate technical ideas and direction across the organization. WHO YOU ARE? BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience. 5+ years of Software Development experience in distributed systems. You have experience designing, building, and deploying high quality software. You have a passion for building distributed client/server systems at large scale. Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in languages like Java, Scala, Go, C or C++. 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 Having experience using or building high-scale distributed data stores. Having experience using high throughput messaging queues and/or streaming platforms (ex. Google Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka).  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" For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice . For more details on how Box Poland protects your information, please see our Supplemental Personnel and Candidate Privacy Notice .    #LI-WS1