Senior Software Engineer, Omni
Box · Redwood City, CA, United States
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer — Omni (Box)** **About Box** Box (NYSE: BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform helps organizations collaborate, manage the full content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Box supports customers worldwide. **Why Box needs you** The Omni team is building a planet-scale data platform that transforms how information flows across Box’s ecosystem. You’ll help design and scale distributed systems that handle both object and graph data at massive scale. **What you’ll do** - Lead the design, build, and operation of highly available, scalable, resilient distributed backend services. - Develop systems for managing data across multiple geographic regions, addressing data sovereignty and compliance. - Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to define and implement APIs and services. - Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in code and design reviews. - Mentor engineers and promote best practices for software development and distributed systems. - Own the full software lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support. - Strengthen team engineering processes and culture through continuous improvement. - Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to and triage production issues. **Who you are** Box is an AI-first company—bring a growth mindset and look for ways to leverage AI to increase impact. **Required skills** - 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience shipping large-scale services. - Deep expertise in distributed systems and trade-offs (consistency, availability, performance). - Proficiency in one or more backend languages: Java, Scala, Go, or Python. - BS in Computer Science (or related) or equivalent practical experience. **Preferred skills** - Product-minded engineer focused on the “why” and solving customer problems. - Experience with data-intensive applications, search (e.g., Elasticsearch/Solr), and/or databases/query systems (SQL/NoSQL). - Strong ownership and comfort in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. - Experience with public cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes/Docker). **Work location / culture** Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office at least **3 days per week**. Your recruiter will share more about how the team works during the hiring process. **Equal opportunity** Box is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities. **Pay transparency (Redwood City)** - **$198,500 — $248,000 USD** (base salary; OTE if commissionable) - Eligible for equity and benefits.
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