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.
By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift. 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.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Architect in our Workflow Engineering domain. A Senior Staff Architect is both a system designer and a hands-on builder. This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to design complex systems, see them through to production in a domain with low legacy code. You will shape the technical direction of a large-scale business-critical domain, while contributing to the code and delivery. You will ensure that systems are not only well-designed but built, shipped and operating reliably at scale.
What You’ll do
Build Critical Systems
- Own the architecture of key workflow and distributed systems
- Lead the implementation of high-impact components
- Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and observable from day one
Drive Execution at Scale
- Partner with engineering teams to turn architecture into working systems
- Lead delivery of large, cross-team initiatives with measurable business impact
- Balance speed, quality and long-term maintainability in real-world tradeoffs
Set Technical Direction
- Establish patterns, frameworks and standards that enable teams to move faster
- Translate business priorities into clear technical roadmaps
- Identify risks early and guide teams toward pragmatic solutions
Influence & Mentor
- Collaborate across teams to align on architecture and execution
- Mentor senior and staff engineers in system design and implementation
- Contribute to a culture of strong ownership, quality and continuous improvement
What We are looking for
- 12+ years in software engineering or related fields
- 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives
- Ability to operate at both high-level architecture and low-level execution
- Proven track record of building distributed systems and large-scale system design
- Pragmatic decision-making: you balance ideal design with real-world constraints
Other information
- Level positioning: Individual contributor, Director-equivalent
- Reporting line: VP Engineering
- Role location: Warsaw-based
- Workflow Eng teams location: Poland and Amsterdam
- Workflow Eng size: ~120 Engineers
- In office requirements: 3 days per week, Tuesdays -> Thursdays.
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.
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