Senior Software Engineer, Messaging Platform

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. 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

Our Messaging team focuses on processing and delivering millions events per second all in near real-time. From powering many of Box’s core products and features, like Box Drive, to supporting integrations through our Events API, we do all of this while maintaining our enterprise-grade standard for our customers.

Messaging is evolving into its next generation as a platform, driven by growing adoption across more Box products and new, innovative use cases. We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team and help shape this exciting future. In this role, you'll collaborate with high-impact teams, architect cutting-edge solutions, and work with a modern, cloud-native tech stack. Your contributions will directly impact millions of users daily, delivering meaningful and transformative experiences.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• 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, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Istio.
• Play a significant role in shaping the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
• Provide mentorship to fellow engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
• Enhance 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 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building distributed services and APIs for internal backend systems in the enterprise applications space.
• 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.
• Ability to lead and deliver large projects with minimal supervision, and to work independently or as part of a larger team.

Preferred skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) 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 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.

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!

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 mo