Software Engineer III, Query Platform

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 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.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU 

The Query Platform team at Box owns and operates a one-of-a-kind, multi-tenant platform that enables customers to define their own schemas and query their data in real time. It powers flexible custom applications for intelligent content management, internal experiences like interactive dashboards and real-time analytics, and is expanding to support Box Search while serving as the foundation for enterprise-wide BoxAI capabilities.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer III who is excited to build and scale this foundational infrastructure.

The performance, scalability, and reliability of this system directly shape how customers discover and interact with their content. Your work will influence not just a single product surface, but the broader ecosystem of applications and AI experiences built on top of the Box platform. If this excites you, come join us at Box.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• 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.

WHO YOU ARE 

• You have 3+ years of professional software development experience
• You have extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment
• You have a proven track record of building services and/or tooling in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, Python)
• You have 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
• Must be able to visit the Redwood City office 3 days a week 
• 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.

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCE 

• 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.

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