About the position
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 AstraZeneca, 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and own scalable infrastructure to help database service and its interface layer remain performant and available under heavy traffic and edge conditions
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new infrastructure components, and help uplift existing systems to meet evolving business needs
- Improve system resilience by identifying bottlenecks, designing fallback strategies, and evolving load-routing logic
- Provide input into the broader Core Data's technical direction through collaboration and execution
- Work in Scala and Python, with a strong focus on services that interact with our MySQL tier
- Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership during incidents related to database load, unavailability, or general SLO breaches
- Participate in our on-call rotation, and be available during on-call shifts to respond to and triage any issues that arise.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficient in common algorithms, data structures, and code design principles
- Experience developing high-scale distributed systems
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with MySQL internals a huge plus
- Experience working with JVM-based services like Scala
- Passionate about solving scale and performance challenges
- Strong sense of ownership, persistence, and drive
- Excellent communication skills
Benefits
- 401k
- 401k_matching
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- unlimited_pto
- tuition_reimbursement
- professional_development
- employee_stock_purchase_plan
- performance_bonus
- sign_on_bonus
