Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundations

Job Description

WHAT IS BOX?

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.

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!

Why Box needs you:

You will join the newly established Data Foundations team within Core Data. We build, operate, and evolve the asynchronous data services that manage the scale and correctness of Box's growing data footprint — keeping it reliable, consistent, and synchronized across many systems and data stores. These services support a wide range of products and internal teams across Box.

The team will take ownership of several existing services, improving their reliability, observability, scalability, and architecture. This is a great opportunity to work on distributed systems at scale and directly shape the team's technical direction.

What you'll do:

• Own and evolve asynchronous data services that enable data synchronization across Box’s systems and data stores.
• Take ownership of existing services and improve their reliability, scalability, observability, and overall architecture.
• Design and implement new services and enhancements to accommodate growing data volumes and evolving platform requirements.
• Ensure data consistency and reliability across all data stores and downstream dependent systems.
• Collaborate with engineers and teams across Core Data and Box to understand data requirements, dependencies, and technical challenges.
• Help operate and improve production services by troubleshooting complex issues, triaging incidents, and addressing reliability and performance bottlenecks.
• Help drive the technical direction and engineering practices of the newly established Data Foundations team.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and remain available during assigned shifts to respond to, triage, and resolve production incidents.

Who you are:

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.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles.
• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming background in strongly typed languages (e.g., Java, Scala).
• Hands-on experience with at least one relational database, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and familiarity with BigQuery.
• Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication skills.
• Actively use AI coding tools — such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex — as a core part of your development workflow, including requirements gathering, writing tests, and delivering code changes;

Methodology

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

BENEFITS

Check out the overview of Life at Box which include general perks and benefits.

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.

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 most from your interview experience.

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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NOTICE OF USE OF AI 

At Box, we believe in the power of AI to improve the recruiting process while keeping people at the heart of every decision. For more information on the use of AI in our hiring process, please visit our webpage here.

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