Senior Software Engineer, Core Data

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 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 Credence team’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and easy-to-use services for uniform access to relational data. As a member of this team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box.

Collaborating with several teams across our relational data tier, you will develop and scale our distributed data access service with an emphasis on availability, performance, and data consistency. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases and continually improve the usability of our data access libraries and services, while also evangelizing the proper use of these libraries across the organization. With our new home in the cloud, you will also help build out our data tier 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:

• Medium blog post - Strategies Used at Box to Protect MySQL at Scale
• Percona 2021 talk - Introducing Transit Nodes: A Sparse Data Structure for Recording Denormalizations
• Medium blog post - Software Rot: Why Exercise is Important for Your Software

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Collaborate with the team on defining the vision for the relational data access tier in the cloud and to evolve our systems towards it
• Design novel approaches to addressing scale and observability challenges associated with exponentially increased usage of our data tier
• Continually improve the availability and performance of our relational data platform while ensuring consistency and supporting increasing traffic volume
• Develop client libraries for accessing our relational data platform and promote their proper use across the engineering organization
• Understand client use cases to improve the usability of our data access services, thereby facilitating rapid feature development for application developers on Box's growing platform

WHO YOU ARE

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• Proficient in common algorithms, data structures, and code design principles
• Experience developing high-scale distributed systems

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with MySQL, Memcached, and/or Redis
• Passionate about solving database scale and performance challenges
• Strong sense of ownership, persistence, and drive
• Excellent communication skills

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. 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 Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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