Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise 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.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Metadata is a key component of the Box Content Cloud, enabling customers to add additional context to their files and transforming them into actionable content. In the current iteration, it's used to organize, discover, annotate, secure, and retain content. Metadata Platform adoption continues to grow exponentially as more Box products, like Shield, Relay, Sign, Governance, etc, rely on it internally and as our customers continue to build custom applications leveraging it.

But, we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. That's where you come in!

As we embark on the mission to deliver a next-generation Metadata Platform, we're looking for a Software 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 and lasting impact on the productivity of millions of users, at some of the most important enterprises of our time.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support 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, and Istio.
• Be heavily involved in setting the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
• 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.

WHO YOU ARE

Required skills:

• You have at least 2+ 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.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Azure.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.

You are in an office based role with the expectation of working from the Redwood City, CA office a minimum of 2x/week

Head-over-heels about this role - but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.

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. Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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