Job Overview
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.
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 acros