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.
Why Box needs you?
As part of Observability Engineering team you will be architecting and engineering mission-critical observability platform that allow our engineers, business and product teams to scale across numerous globally distributed environments. You'll work in a mature, resilient and secure operating environment where you-and the products you deliver-will thrive. In addition, you will help to evolve and transform the environment for the future to ensure it can leverage best in class cloud technologies and practices. You will be part of strategic change in tools and process by keeping up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities.Consistently question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and strive for improvement. Champion data governance adoption and ensure the new modern architecture is designed with scalability and longevity in mind.
What You’ll Do?
- You will design, build, and evolve the telemetry platform and instrumentation standards that enable reliable operations across Box’s globally distributed services.
- You will partner with service teams to implement effective observability across logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and SLOs. Ensuring telemetry is actionable, consistently contextualized, and tied to clear service ownership.
- You will make sound engineering tradeoffs around telemetry cardinality, sampling, retention, and cost to deliver scalable, high-signal observability.