Software Engineer III, Core Data

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leader in Intelligent Content Management. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

 

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU 

Developers at Box routinely face challenges of serving millions of requests per second, while providing enterprise-grade uptime, consistency and performance guarantees. Our goal is to let them focus on business logic, while we make sure the data layer lives up to their requirements. The Core Data domain’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and performant infrastructure for online data access.

You have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box, especially as we take advantage of our new home in the cloud to make our data infrastructure more scalable and reliable than ever. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases and work together with other teams in the domain to design and build new solutions to meet our clients’ needs, all while supporting ever-increasing scale, being cost-efficient and maintaining our performance guarantees. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our core data tier.

For more insight into Box's data tier, please see the following:

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale

• RedisConf 2019 talk about Secure Redis Cluster at Box

• Percona 2021 talk about transit nodes: a sparse data structure for recording sharding denormalizations

• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Help define the future of Box’s Core Data architecture in the cloud and evolve our systems towards it

• Work with team members to design novel approaches to addressing scale and observability challenges associated with exponentially increased usage of our data tier

• Develop services to ensure consistency of data across our various data stores

• Provide guidance to client engineering teams on how best to design their entity schemas in a sharded, low-latency, high-throughput environment

 

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field

• 3+ years of experience working with software

• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles

• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems

• Passionate about database scale and performance challenges

• Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication

 

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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

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 opportuni