Senior Software Engineer, Omni

What Is Box?

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 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.

Why Box Needs You

The Omni team is pioneering a planet-scale data platform that will transform how information flows through our ecosystem. We're not just building infrastructure-we're creating the foundation that will power Box's next generation of innovations.

Our ambitious platform seamlessly handles both object and graph data with a flexible schema overlay, designed to scale to truly impressive dimensions: trillions of nodes interconnected by hundreds of billions of relationships. As this vast data universe expands exponentially year after year, we thrive on the cutting-edge challenges that demand our creativity and technical excellence.

We are looking for a strong backend engineer to help us build and scale these critical distributed systems. This is your opportunity to solve fascinating problems at the intersection of massive scale, performance, and innovation, that have a direct and massive impact on how millions of people work with their most important content.

What You'll Do

• Lead design, build, and operate highly-available, scalable, and resilient distributed backend services that form the core of our platform.
• Develop systems for managing data across multiple geographic regions, solving complex challenges related to data sovereignty and compliance.
• Collaborate with your team, product managers and other engineering teams to define and implement the APIs and services that power Box's platform.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high standards of quality.
• Mentor other engineers on the team, promoting best practices in software development and distributed systems design.
• Take ownership of the entire software lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team by championing a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Who You Are

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Required skills

• You have 5+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a proven track record of building and shipping complex, large-scale services.
• You possess deep expertise in designing and working with distributed systems, understanding the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and performance.
• You are proficient in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
• You hold a BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.

Preferred skills

• You are a product-minded engineer who thinks about the "why" behind the "what" and is passionate about solving customer problems.
• You have experience with data-intensive applications, search technologies (like Elasticsearch or Solr), and/or database and query systems (SQL or NoSQL).
• You have a strong sense of ownership and are comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with at least one public cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.

Additional information

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.Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!