Senior Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

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 

Box Search powers content discovery for millions of users and hundreds of billions of documents.  The amount of content our customers are storing within Box is growing at an unprecedented rate.  In turn, browsing through a file tree has become increasingly difficult, leaving Search as the de facto way for knowledge workers to connect with the content they need to do critical elements of their jobs.  Search Infrastructure not only powers end user experiences across mobile, desktop and api but also brand new products like Hubs and BoxAI that were recently announced at BoxWorks (Box’s annual customer conference) this year.  More internal and external features are being built on top of the Search backend continuously and it is now a critical portion of user facing products and customer built applications.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• Own, align and drive the roadmap for our Search API, capabilities and platform.
• Scale out the Search Infrastructure as it grows at an exponential rate
• Power new Search features for future innovative products on the Box roadmap
• Work on a large scale installation of Solr/Lucene 
• Work in a challenging concurrency and scalability space

WHO YOU ARE 

• Skilled at solving complex problems using data-driven solutions
• Enjoy working collaboratively with teams while taking pride in your work
• Able to inspire other people to work with you, and you enjoy mentoring and coaching, as well as learning from other engineers
• Excitement toward building distributed, client/server systems, especially in the web application space
• Enjoy crafting elegant and scalable solutions
• Have a passion for solving multi-data center scalability problems
• You've built, deployed, and supported backend asynchronous services 
• Must be able to visit the Redwood City office 1-2 days a week 

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE

• Proficiency in an object oriented language such as Java, Scala, or C++
• BS+ degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proficiency with distributed systems
• 4+ years of industry experience

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE 

• Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval engines
• Familiarity with vector search systems
• Kubernetes or similar container orchestrator
• Public cloud systems such as AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalent
• Scala and a MapReduce framework
• Queuing systems such as Kafka or equivalents

LEARN MORE ABOUT BOX SEARCH

• Solr Indexing in GCP with Shubhro
• Improving Search Availability: Striving for more 9s
• Scaling Box Search Using Lumos
• Scaling Box-Search: Gearing up for Petabyte Scale - Shubhro Roy & Anthony Urbanowicz, 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 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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