Software Engineer III, Events Processing

Box•Redwood City, CA

16h•$165,000 - $206,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Events Processing team provides foundational infrastructure for asynchronous event processing and job execution, delivering data across Box. Its services support rule evaluation and distributed job management at scale, helping ensure reliable execution of workloads such as indexing files for search and converting files for preview. Box is expanding the Events Platform for adoption by more products and new use cases. The Software Engineer III will collaborate with high-impact teams, architect solutions, and work with cloud-native services to help shape the platform’s future and support millions of users.

Requirements

At least 3 years of professional software development experience.
Experience building distributed services and APIs for internal backend systems in the enterprise applications space.
A proven track record of building services and/or tooling in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Scala, or Python.
Experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
Ability to lead and deliver large projects with minimal supervision and work independently or as part of a larger team.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Azure.
Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability, and efficiency.
Work with technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Istio.
Help shape the platform vision and define feature roadmaps.
Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
Enhance engineering processes, principles, and culture across the team and Box by promoting learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.
Participate in the on-call rotation and be available while on-call to respond to and triage issues.