Senior Software Engineer, Desktop Foundation

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.

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 

The Desktop team builds applications that bring the power of Box's content platform to where users get their work done - on their Windows and MacOS devices. Our desktop applications help users access and collaborate on their documents in cloud with the familiarity of their local computer and local applications. In this role you will work on the foundational tools and frameworks - from Continuous Integration to our Release Framework, Product Health metric framework infrastructure to virtualization pipeline - to allow the whole team to be productive and deliver products to customers with high quality.  We welcome applicants who are excited about creating solutions for fellow engineers while addressing a variety of challenges within our product ecosystem.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• Collaborate with and learn from the Desktop Foundation team of talented engineers in our Redwood City, California and Warsaw offices.
• Work collaboratively across various teams—both engineering-focused as well as cross-functional—to enhance tools/frameworks that empower all members in delivering high-quality enterprise-grade products.
• Engage in constructive peer reviews where you can share insights on each other's code.
• Create clear documentation around technical designs/processes that fosters understanding among all team members.
• Explore various design options while sharing insights into their advantages/disadvantages with your colleagues.
• Work with a variety of systems from CI systems to tiered release systems, metric ingestion to automation frameworks, to tackle the top problems impacting team productivity.
• Work with virtual machines and build infrastructure automation to streamline and deliver a reliable platform for engineers to run their tests.
• Own or co-own team projects where you are the technical leader. This will include owning project goals and delivery as well as maintaining a high bar for modular, maintainable, and testable code.
• Investigate the pain-points in our development processes and systems.  Then help prioritize and fix them.
• Develop metrics, alerts and reports that help monitoring the health of our infrastructure systems.

WHO YOU ARE 

Required skills

• You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 
• You have at least 5 years of experience in development or operations.
• You possess proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go along with an understanding of software design principles.
• Experience using contemporary testing frameworks/methodologies
• You have practical experience managing jobs and pipelines for CI/CD and SCM solutions like Jenkins, Github, etc. 
• You have practical experience managing VMs of different types and associated tools like Ansible
• You enjoy building tools and frameworks for other engineers
• You have excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Preferred skills

• Experience with VSphere and/or ESXi, Parallels, or Verge.io
• Experience with Unix/Linux system administration and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of secure build practices (e.g., code signing, deployment)
• Experience working with Mac and Windows development environments
• Networking and infrastructure knowledge
• Experience with MacStadium VPC or Orka solutions

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.

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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