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Senior Software Engineer, Database Infra

Redwood City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jun 2025

💰 $187,000/yr

About the role

WHAT IS BOX?

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.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Are you excited about scaling a relational data system to tens of millions of queries per second? How about making sure that the system offers availability and consistency required to serve as the foundational layer for the critical workflows of today's most productive enterprises? Join our small team focused on the platform that enables developers at Box to store and access relational data. We are looking for a senior engineer to focus on developing robust software to manage a fleet of thousands of MySQL instances in a cloud environment.

The broader Core Data team is responsible for providing a highly-available, strictly consistent, performant and easy-to-use infrastructure for online and offline access of the Box user data graph. This system underpins all Box features, which is what drives our requirements, as well as millions of transactions per second in throughput. Below are articles describing some facets of Box Core Data that you might find interesting:

The Database Infrastructure group is a close-knit and diverse team at the heart of Core Data. We continually drive improvements to the resiliency, performance and consistency of the heavily sharded MySQL deployment that comprises the source of truth for Core Data. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to designing and building innovative solutions to both classic and Box-specific database infrastructure challenges, working closely with fellow database engineers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Manage large-scale MySQL deployments across thousands of database nodes in GCP, ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
Contribute to the design and implementation of new database infrastructure components, or help uplift existing systems to meet evolving business needs.
Collaborate on defining the technical vision for the Database Infrastructure team and help break it down into actionable milestones.
Provide input into the broader Core Data team’s technical direction through collaboration and execution.
Participate in the day-to-day management of database infrastructure, including joining the 24×7 oncall rotation.
Support and improve engineering processes, principles, and culture by fostering a mindset of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection within the team.
Participate in our on-call rotation, and be available during on-call shifts to respond to and triage any issues that arise.

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