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Senior Software Engineer, Search & Query Infra

Box

Redwood City, CA
Full Time
Senior
187k-234k
about 2 months ago

Job Description

About the Role

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 AstraZeneca, 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark 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
  • Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise

Requirements

  • You have 4+ years of professional software development experience
  • Extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment
  • Proven track record of building services and/or tooling in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, Python)
  • Experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub
  • Proficiency in an object oriented language such as Java, Scala, or C++
  • BS+ degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Proficiency with distributed systems
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Must be able to visit the Redwood City office 1-2 days a week
  • Approach work with a growth mindset and leverage AI to make faster, smarter decisions

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval systems
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Azure
  • Experience deploying and operating Microservices on Kubernetes

Qualifications

  • BS+ degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry experience

Benefits & Perks

  • Role is eligible for equity and benefits
  • Competitive salary based on experience and work location
  • Healthcare benefits and additional Box Benefits + Perks

Working at Box

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, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. We believe diverse experiences benefit our culture, products, customers, and the world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and value diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility. Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment.

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Job Details

Posted AtAug 2, 2025
Salary187k-234k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceSenior

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About Box

Website

box.com

Company Size

1001-5000 employees

Location

Redwood City, CA

Industry

Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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