Senior Software Engineer, Metadata Core

Metadata is a key component of the Box Intelligent Cloud, enabling customers to add additional context to their files and transforming them into actionable content. In the current iteration, it's used to organize, discover, annotate, secure, and retain content. Metadata Platform adoption continues to grow exponentially as more Box products, like Shield, Relay, Forms, Sign, Governance, etc, rely on it internally and as our customers continue to build custom applications leveraging it.

But, we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. That's where you come in!

As we embark on the mission to deliver a next-generation Metadata Platform, we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role. You'll have the opportunity to work with a team of talented, collaborative, and fun engineers, solving some of the toughest challenges, as we build out the future of intelligent content management in the cloud. The work you do will have an immediate and lasting impact on the productivity of millions of users, at some of the most important enterprises of our time.

• →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.
• →Collaborate with partner teams and domain architects on system design and services integration.
• →Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, and Istio.
• →Be heavily involved in setting the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
• →Mentor other engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
• →Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.

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.

WHO YOU ARE 

• →You have 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• →You have extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment.
• →Good understanding of scalability and observability practices.
• →Proficient in Java, familiarity with other scripting languages like Python, Scala or PHP is a plus.
• →Skilled in designing and developing APIs.
• →Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB preferred.
• →You have experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub.
• →You are the technical expert and provide guidance to your team on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues.
• →You have experience in mentoring and coaching engineers and provide technical feedback.
• →Proficiency in spoken and written English.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Azure.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.

• 50% coding
• 20% documentation
• 20% bug fixes
• 10% meetings

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHub Enterprise
• Version control system - GIT