Software Engineer III, DB Platform

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 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.

The Database Platform team’s mission is to provide a scalable, consistent, and easy-to-use relational database platform to support our clients’ relational data access use cases. 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.

As a SWE III on the Database Platform team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box. We are in an exciting era of growth and that means serving more customer traffic and data than ever before. Working closely with the database infrastructure team and data access service team, you will implement novel solutions to scale our database including adopting and evolving our systems around cloud-managed database solutions. Box’s accelerated growth in the AI era also means we support an ever-increasing velocity of development within Box. You will also develop intuitive interfaces and provide automated services for schema management to enable developers to focus on shipping changes with streamlined change processes, while also freeing up the team to focus on innovation and strategic solutions.

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

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale and a related Medium blog
• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag

• →Contribute to the novel adoption of cloud-managed database solutions and continue to evolve our systems for the new platform
• →Collaborate team members to design novel approaches to addressing scale challenges associated with exponentially increased usage of our data tier
• →Simplify the management of database changes to facilitate rapid feature development for our team and developers across Box
• →Partner with teams across engineering to design scalable database schemas suitable for a variety of business needs in Box's constantly growing and evolving platform
• →Manage critical production systems with enterprise-grade excellence around performance, availability, and consistency
• →Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures, and code design principles
• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems

Preferred Skills

• Experience with JVM-based languages such as Java and Scala
• Familiarity with relational database solutions such as MySQL
• Passionate about 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 3 days per week. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process. 

Based on current business needs, there is no relocation assistance provided for this role.

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!

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