Scala Data Engineer for Scalable AI-First Platform

Box Com; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Box Poland is seeking a software engineer to join the Data Foundations team within Core Data. You will own and evolve asynchronous data services that support data synchronization across Box’s systems and data stores, ensuring reliability, scalability, and consistency.

This role offers opportunities to design new services, improve architecture, and collaborate with multiple teams while participating in on-call rotations. A strong foundation in distributed systems and databases is required.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve asynchronous data services supporting data synchronization across Box's systems and data stores.
• Take ownership of existing services and improve their reliability, scalability, observability, and architecture.
• Design and implement new services and improvements to support growing data volumes and evolving platform requirements.
• Help ensure data remains consistent and reliable across different data stores and downstream systems.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and consolidate existing services and improve the data platform.
• Collaborate with engineers across Core Data and Box to understand data requirements and challenges.
• Participate in operation and continuous improvement of production services, including troubleshooting reliability or performance issues.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the Data Foundations platform as the team evolves.
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to and triage issues.

Skills

Scala/Java

Distributed systems

Algorithms & data structures

Database performance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math or related field

Tools

MySQL

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

GitHub Enterprise

Jira

Job description

Box Poland is seeking a software engineer to join the Data Foundations team within Core Data. You will own and evolve asynchronous data services that support data synchronization across Box’s systems and data stores, ensuring reliability, scalability, and consistency.

This role offers opportunities to design new services, improve architecture, and collaborate with multiple teams while participating in on-call rotations. A strong foundation in distributed systems and databases is required.