Senior Software Engineer, Microservice Foundation

Box; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Job summary

Box is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Microservice Foundation in Redwood City, CA. You will lead multi-year, mission-critical initiatives, build platforms enabling product teams, and mentor engineers across architecture levels.

The role requires Java/Spring expertise, backend system design, and strong communication, with on-call responsibilities and a focus on scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record of leading design and implementation in high-scale backend systems.
• Proficiency in Java/Spring/SpringBoot.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex architectural concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead significant technology initiatives from inception through successful deployment across multiple architecture layers.
• Build platforms and services that enable application teams to focus on product development.
• Write clear, detailed technical documentation conveying architecture and product details for application teams.
• Provide expert guidance across all architecture levels and mentor other engineers.
• Participate in domain-wide architectural reviews and decisions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to issues as needed.

Skills

Java/Spring/SpringBoot

Backend system design

Communication

Ownership mindset

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Gradle

OpenAPI Specification

Okhttp

Vert.x/Netty

GCP Pub/Sub

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Microservice Foundation

Redwood City, CA, United States

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 YO

Box is redefining how the world's largest enterprises secure, manage, and collaborate on content in the cloud. At the heart of this transformation is the Microservices Foundation team, which designs and scales the high-performance, mission-critical infrastructure that powers Box globally. The team builds and maintains the core infrastructure, microservices frameworks, tools, and best practices that empower Box product teams to develop, deploy, and operate microservices at scale. Essentially, the team provides the foundational layer that enables engineers across Box to move fast and innovate rapidly without compromising on performance, scalability, or security.

Our team directly owns and scales several critical, high-traffic infrastructure services:

• API Gateway: Orchestrates request routing, authentication, and rate limiting for all incoming traffic.
• Rate Limiter: Executes real-time rate-limiting decisions to protect Box from overload, enhance security, and guarantee fair resource allocation.
• Permissions Services: Enforces fine-grained, attribute-based access control (ABAC) to deliver context-aware, dynamic security controls at microsecond latency.
• Unified Events Producer: Publishes high-throughput audit log events that power critical admin reporting and billing pipelines.

We need a Senior Software Engineer on this team, to drive our multi-year, mission-critical initiatives that will shape the future of Box's architecture. In addition, the team owns a robust Microservices Framework:

The Monaco Framework serves as a foundational technology that enables and powers 150+ microservices at Box, ensuring consistent standards, simplified dependency management, and robust infrastructure compatibility across the engineering organization. Key capabilities include:

• Core Service Functions: Standardized annotations, dynamic configuration, unified error handling, filters, and listeners
• Code Generation & Build Utilities:Automatic generation of Java server-side stubs, and client SDKs from OpenAPI schemas (OAS 3.x specifications), and seamless integration with Gradle build tool
• Observability & Logging: Out-of-the-box structured logging, comprehensive metrics and distributed tracing for end-to-end visibility
• Security & Permissions: Robust endpoint protection and standardized REST API security protocols
• HTTP Client & Communication: Standardized HTTP clients and seamless integrations with messaging systems like GCP Pub/Sub and MQS/JMS
• Database & Persistence: A Spring Data-inspired framework built over Box’s high-performance distributed data access layer

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead significant technology initiatives from inception through successful deployment across multiple architecture layers.
• Build platforms and services that enable application teams to focus on product development.
• Write clear, detailed technical documentation that conveys architecture and product details for application teams.
• Provide expert guidance across all architecture levels and mentor other engineers.
• Participate in and influence domain-wide architectural reviews and decisions.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise (required wording by legal)

WHO YOU ARE

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Required Skills

• Bachelors or above degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven track record of leading the design and implementation efforts in building, deploying and supporting high-scale backend systems
• Proficiency in Java/Spring/SpringBoot
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Ownership mindset with focus on delivering high-quality work both technically & collaboratively

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with GCP or equivalent
• Familiarity / experience with Microservices architecture

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Languages: Java, Scala, PHP
• Libraries/Frameworks: Spring Boot, Vert.x/Netty, GCP Pub-Sub, OpenAPI Specification, Okhttp, Gradle
• Observability/Monitoring: SLF4J, Chronospehere (PromQL), PagerDuty, Otel, BigQuery, GCL

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 3 days per week. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

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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Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.