Software Engineer III, Core Data

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 Core Data team’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and easy-to-use services for near-realtime access to our users’ data graphs. 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 member of this team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box.

Collaborating with several teams across our relational data tier, you will develop and scale our near-realtime data access interfaces that provide a change data stream of all actions performed on the graph and a highly scalable data warehouse that can support complex data processing. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases, enhance the interfaces to support those use cases, and drive wider adoption across engineering. You will advocate for and ensure that our services meet our availability, performance and reliability SLOs. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our core data tier into a truly self-contained platform.

• →Help define the future of 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 identify, eliminate and prevent occurrences of data inconsistencies or corruptions
• →Provide guidance to client engineering teams on how best to take advantage of our near-real-time interfaces
• →Drive wider adoption of our near-real-time interfaces across engineering by identifying compatible use cases
• →Develop and implement initiatives to ensure our systems consistently meet availability, performance, and reliability SLOs

• 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
• Familiarity with Scala/Java, MySQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery
• Passionate about database scale and performance challenges
• Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication

• 60% coding
• 10% documentation
• 12% bug fixes
• 10% meetings

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool -Jira
• Knowledge repository - GitHubEnterprise
• Code reviews - GitHubEntreprise 
• Version control system - GIT

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