About the role
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.
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!
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU
The Caching Team provides a performant, highly-available, and scalable caching platform for use throughout the Box platform. We serve as the caching layer within our core relational data tier processing tens of millions of requests per second, while also powering numerous critical, high-throughput, and low-latency workflows. Our goal is to provide easy-to-use solutions to the complex challenges of serving heavy load with strict consistency and high performance requirements, so that developers across Box can focus on shipping their business requirements.
Looking ahead, Box’s ever-growing usage means that we have to be ready to process higher scale than ever before, and continue to do so with the enterprise-grade reliability that our customers expect. You will have a unique opportunity to help design and build our next-gen caching architecture, owning critical initiatives that improve the performance, scale, and reliability of our services. You will also partner with engineering teams across the organization to understand their needs and drive architectural improvements towards the usability and impact of our platform. As a member of this mission-critical engineering team, your work will have significant impact on engineering at Box and our 40+ million users.