Software Engineer III , Caching

Box•Redwood City, CA

1d•$165,000 - $206,500•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
3+ years of professional software development experience
Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures, and code design principles
Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems

Nice To Haves

Experience with JVM-based languages such as Java and Scala
Familiarity with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
Passionate about scale and performance challenges

Responsibilities

Contribute to the future of Box’s Caching architecture as we migrate our Memcached and Redis fleets to the next-generation of caching solutions.
Develop solutions to the scale, performance, and resilience challenges involved with protecting an exponentially growing data tier serving tens of millions of requests per second.
Partner with client teams to understand their traffic patterns and provide guidance on effective caching strategies.
Deliver high technical excellence in operating our production-critical services and identify opportunities to continually improve their reliability.
Collaborate with team members on technical design and architecture decisions to help shape the team’s technical direction.
Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.