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Senior Software Engineer, Search & Query Infra

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.

The Search and Query Infrastructure team at Box owns and operates a highly scalable and performant platform to support fast, reliable, and secure discovery of enterprise content through both full-text search and metadata-based queries. We index petabytes of content and serve a high volume of queries with low latency and high availability. Our systems are the foundation of not only the Box Search experience, but also powers BoxAI features that enable smarter, faster insights for our customers. We work on complex distributed systems problems involving data sharding, intelligent routing, global data replication, performance optimization, and near real-time indexing all at scale. We operate mission-critical infrastructure and continuously innovate to improve search quality, speed, and relevance.

As we continue our mission to deliver a next-generation platform, 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.

Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform, from the ground up

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

Be heavily involved in setting the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps

Mentor other engineers and contribute to team growth and development

Strengthen 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.

You have 4+ years of professional software development experience

You have extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment

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

Must be able to visit the Redwood City office 1-2 days a week

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.

Proficiency in an object oriented language such as Java, Scala, or C++

BS+ degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Proficiency with distributed systems

5+ years of industry experience

Familiarity with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval systems.

Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services 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!

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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