Senior Identity & Security Platform Engineer

Box Com; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Box is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Identity and Security Foundation in Redwood City, CA. You will build secure authentication and authorization systems powering Box's AI-enabled content platform.

Join a fast-moving, security-first team and help shape enterprise-grade security across Box services, APIs, and microservices while mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of modern authentication and authorization technologies, including MFA, SSO, OAuth 2.0, JWTs, token management, scopes, and permissions.
• Experience designing, building, and operating secure, production-grade services and RESTful APIs using microservices architectures.
• Strong Java proficiency and working knowledge of PHP.
• Strong understanding of security best practices and the ability to design systems that balance security, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Ability to translate product and business requirements into scalable, secure technical designs.
• Experience collaborating effectively with engineering and business leaders across teams and disciplines.
• Preferred Skills: You have implemented solutions based on Box APIs; You have led or contributed to open source projects; You contribute to developer communities such as Stack Overflow or GitHub

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable authentication and authorization systems using technologies such as Java, PHP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Build and operate high-quality microservices that power security capabilities including MFA, SSO, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWTs, token management, scopes, and permissions.
• Provide technical guidance across multiple levels of architecture and mentor engineers on the team, helping raise the bar for engineering and security practices.
• Influence and contribute to company-wide architectural decisions, bringing deep expertise in identity, authentication, authorization, and security to technical reviews.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

Skills

Java

PHP

Docker

Kubernetes

MFA

SSO

OAuth 2.0

JWTs

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Box APIs

Job description

Box is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Identity and Security Foundation in Redwood City, CA. You will build secure authentication and authorization systems powering Box's AI-enabled content platform.

Join a fast-moving, security-first team and help shape enterprise-grade security across Box services, APIs, and microservices while mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions.