Software Engineer Iii, Metadata Experience

Box Box · Enterprise · Warsaw, Poland · Core Platform

Software Engineer III role focused on developing and operating a next-generation Metadata Platform, which is a key component of Box's Intelligent Content Management system. The role involves leading design and implementation, collaborating with teams, and working with technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark, and Istio. The position emphasizes scalability, reliability, and observability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform, from the ground up.
  2. Collaborate with partner teams and domain architects on system design and services integration.
  3. Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
  4. Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark and Istio.
  5. Be heavily involved in defining the vision and assembling feature roadmaps.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of professional software development experience
  • Extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment
  • Fluent in one of modern JavaScript frameworks (React or Vue)
  • Good understanding of scalability and observability practices
  • Experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub
  • Collaborate with engineering and business leaders across organizations and disciplines
  • Led a team of engineers and are able to assess, communicate and complete project milestones
  • Technical expert and provide guidance to your team on best practices, coding standards, and complex technical issues
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching engineers and provide technical feedback
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English

Nice to have

  • Experience working with distributed teams in different time zones
  • Experience with public cloud systems such as GCP, AWS or Azure

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise AI
  • intelligent content management
  • metadata platform
  • scalability
  • observability