Senior Software Engineer, Microservice Foundation

Box•Redwood City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 across the engineering organization.

Requirements

Bachelors or above degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional software development experience
Proven track record of leading the design and implementation efforts in building, deploying and supporting high-scale backend systems
Proficiency in Java/Spring/SpringBoot
Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Ownership mindset with focus on delivering high-quality work both technically & collaboratively

Nice To Haves

Experience with GCP or equivalent
Familiarity / experience with Microservices architecture

Responsibilities

Lead significant technology initiatives from inception through successful deployment across multiple architecture layers.
Build platforms and services that enable application teams to focus on product development.
Write clear, detailed technical documentation that conveys architecture and product details for application teams.
Provide expert guidance across all architecture levels and mentor other engineers.
Participate in and influence domain-wide architectural reviews and decisions.
Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise (required wording by legal)