Senior Software Engineer, DB Platform

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

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. The DB Platform team’s mission is to provide a scalable and resilient database platform, on top of the underlying database infrastructure, to support our clients’ relational data access use cases. As a member of this team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box.

Collaborating closely with the database infrastructure and access layer teams, you will rethink how our tenants' data should be logically distributed across databases to optimize performance in a high-throughput, low-latency environment. By understanding client engineering teams' use cases, you will continually improve the usability of our relational data platform. With our new home in the cloud, you will also help build out our data infrastructure to become more scalable and performant than ever before. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our relational data tier into a truly self-contained platform.

For more insight into Box's data tier, please see the following:

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale
• Percona 2021 talk about transit nodes: a sparse data structure for recording sharding denormalizations
• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Help define the future of Box DB Platform 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 design their entity schemas in a sharded, low-latency, high-throughput environment
• Simplify the management of database schemas to facilitate rapid feature development for application developers on Box's constantly growing and evolving platform

WHO YOU ARE

Required 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

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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

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 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.

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