Software Engineer III, Productivity Engineering

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.

WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY ENGINEERING?

Productivity Engineering is a tight-knit passionate group of software engineers who focus on and take pride in making Box engineers more productive. The team builds the CI/CD platform and Quality frameworks that enable Box to deliver quality software in a fast, efficient, reliable, and secure way. Our Developer Tools and Infrastructure team builds services that allows engineers to efficiently complete their day-to-day tasks. The team builds on top of various vendor and open-source tools like Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Backstage, Prefect, Split.io, WebdriverIO, BrowserStack, SonarQube, etc. and integrates them with each other and with our home-grown Box tooling to provide a consistent and seamless experience to Box Engineering teams.

We’re looking to fill an open position in our CI/CD team, and looking for someone with a strong software engineering background who is passionate advocate for making developers more efficient and productive.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and efficient CI/CD platform to where engineering teams can host their automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

• Collaborate across the users of the platform and partner teams to deliver the critical improvements to the CI/CD platform.

• Work with Box Architects and Vendors to design and implement secure, efficient, and reliable CI/CD solutions.

• Capture and monitor the key metrics of the CI/CD ecosystem, and use them to continuously improve the platform.

• Champion software development best practices within the team.

• Participate in Sprint planning, demos, and daily scrum meetings.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in CI/CD and other DevOps spaces.

WHO YOU ARE

• 3+ years of software development experience in DevOps or Backend Engineering

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.

• Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, or Go.

• Experience with a version control system (e.g. Git), and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong problem solving skills and a desire to learn new things.

• Passion for improving developer productivity and efficiency.

• Strong advocate for software engineering best practices like, code quality, code reviews, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), etc.

• Experience working in a environment that follows Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in DevOps or Backend Engineering.

• Prior experience with building and maintaining CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, CircleCI, etc.) is a plus.

• Experience with managing Artifact management system like Artifactory or docker registries.

• Experience with Public cloud platforms, especially AWS and Google Cloud.

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

• A background in Linux System Administration is a plus.

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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