Box
Senior Software Engineer, Core Data
Box, Redwood City, California, United States, 94061
WHAT IS BOX?Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle.WHY BOX NEEDS YOUWe have open positions on our DB Platform and Credence teams at Box. They fall under the same hiring manager in Core Data, so they share similar projects and initiatives. With that being said, you will be considered for both roles by applying to this job description. Here is a little more about each of the teams:At Box, developers face the challenge of handling millions of requests per second while ensuring top-notch uptime, consistency, and performance. The DB Platform team aims to support developers by providing a scalable and resilient database platform that meets their needs. As a member of this team, you will collaborate with other teams to optimize data distribution across databases for high performance in a low-latency environment. By understanding client use cases, you will enhance the usability of our relational data platform and contribute to building a more scalable infrastructure in the cloud.The Credence team at Box focuses on delivering highly-available services for uniform access to relational data. Joining this team offers an opportunity to shape the future of data at Box by developing and scaling distributed data access services with an emphasis on availability, performance, and consistency. You will work closely with various teams to improve usability and promote proper usage of data access libraries while contributing to making our cloud-based data tier more scalable and performant than ever before.WHAT YOU'LL DODefine the future of Box DB Platform architecture in the cloud and drive its evolution.
Collaborate with team members to design innovative solutions for scaling and monitoring challenges associated with increased data usage.
Develop services to identify, eliminate, and prevent data inconsistencies or corruptions.
Provide guidance to client engineering teams on designing entity schemas in a sharded, low-latency, high-throughput environment.
Simplify database schema management to enable rapid feature development for application developers on Box's dynamic platform.
Continuously improve the availability and performance of our relational data platform while ensuring consistency and supporting growing traffic volume.
Create client libraries for accessing our relational data platform and promote their proper use across the engineering organization.
Understand client use cases to enhance the usability of our data access services, facilitating rapid feature development for application developers on Box's expanding platform.
WHO YOU ARERequired Skills:Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
4+ 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:Familiarity with management or development of a high-scale relational database in a distributed environment.
Passionate about database scale and performance challenges.
Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication.
Familiarity with MySQL, Memcached, and/or Redis.
Head-over-heels about this role - but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.EQUAL OPPORTUNITYWe 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. Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form.For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice.United States Pay Range: $181,000 - $226,500 USD
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Collaborate with team members to design innovative solutions for scaling and monitoring challenges associated with increased data usage.
Develop services to identify, eliminate, and prevent data inconsistencies or corruptions.
Provide guidance to client engineering teams on designing entity schemas in a sharded, low-latency, high-throughput environment.
Simplify database schema management to enable rapid feature development for application developers on Box's dynamic platform.
Continuously improve the availability and performance of our relational data platform while ensuring consistency and supporting growing traffic volume.
Create client libraries for accessing our relational data platform and promote their proper use across the engineering organization.
Understand client use cases to enhance the usability of our data access services, facilitating rapid feature development for application developers on Box's expanding platform.
WHO YOU ARERequired Skills:Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
4+ 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:Familiarity with management or development of a high-scale relational database in a distributed environment.
Passionate about database scale and performance challenges.
Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication.
Familiarity with MySQL, Memcached, and/or Redis.
Head-over-heels about this role - but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.EQUAL OPPORTUNITYWe 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. Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form.For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice.United States Pay Range: $181,000 - $226,500 USD
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