Software Engineer III , Caching

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.

Why Box Needs You

The Caching Team provides a performant, highly-available, and scalable caching platform for use throughout the Box platform. We serve as the caching layer within our core relational data tier processing tens of millions of requests per second, while also powering numerous critical, high-throughput, and low-latency workflows. Our goal is to provide easy-to-use solutions to the complex challenges of serving heavy load with strict consistency and high performance requirements, so that developers across Box can focus on shipping their business requirements.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the future of Box’s Caching architecture as we migrate our Memcached and Redis fleets to the next-generation of caching solutions.
• Develop solutions to the scale, performance, and resilience challenges involved with protecting an exponentially growing data tier serving tens of millions of requests per second.
• Partner with client teams to understand their traffic patterns and provide guidance on effective caching strategies.
• Deliver high technical excellence in operating our production-critical services and identify opportunities to continually improve their reliability.
• Collaborate with team members on technical design and architecture decisions to help shape the team’s technical direction.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures, and code design principles
• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems

Preferred skills:

• Experience with JVM-based languages such as Java and Scala
• Familiarity with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
• Passionate about scale and performance challenges

United States Pay Range

$165,000 - $206,500 USD