Software Engineer III, Credence

WHAT IS BOX? 

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 

Developers at Box routinely face challenges of serving millions of requests per second, while providing enterprise-grade uptime, consistency and performance guarantees. Our goal is to let them focus on business logic, while we make sure the data layer lives up to their requirements. The Credence team’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and easy-to-use services for uniform access to relational data. As a member of this team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box.

Collaborating with several teams across our relational data tier, you will develop and scale our distributed data access service with an emphasis on availability, performance, and data consistency. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases and continually improve the usability of our data access libraries and services, while also evangelizing the proper use of these libraries across the organization. With our new home in the cloud, you will also help build out our data tier to become more scalable and performant than ever before. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our relational data tier into a truly self-contained platform.

For more insight into Box's data tier, please see the following:

• Medium blog post - Strategies Used at Box to Protect MySQL at Scale
• Percona 2021 talk - Introducing Transit Nodes: A Sparse Data Structure for Recording Denormalizations
• Medium blog post - Software Rot: Why Exercise is Important for Your Software

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Collaborate with the team on defining the vision for the relational data access tier in the cloud and to evolve our systems towards it
• Work with team members to design novel approaches to addressing scale and performance challenges associated with exponentially increased usage of our data tier
• Improve the availability and performance of our relational data tier by uplifting our services to run and serve data across multiple datacenters
• Understand client use cases to improve the usability of our data access services, thereby facilitating rapid feature development for application developers on Box's growing platform

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• 3+ years of experience working with software
• Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles
• Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems
• Passionate about database scale and performance challenges
• Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with MySQL, Memcached, and/or Redis
• Passionate about solving database scale and performance challenges
• Excellent communication skills

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.

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