Senior Software Engineer, Search

Here you can find how we deal with scaling our Search platform and what challenges we are facing:

• Scaling Box-Search: Gearing up for Petabyte Scale
• Scaling Box Search Using Lumos

You will spend 60% of your time coding, 15% on doing technical design, 5% on documentation, 10% on maintaining/on-call and 10% on meetings.

What You’ll Do? 

You will be combining existing Search infrastructure functionality as well as brand new services to deliver a scalable, and easy to use Search Platform. 

This means you will:

• Design and implement highly scalable backend micro services
• Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
• Collaborate with product, core platform services teams, and client teams to power the Search Platform
• Attend and engage in weekly stand ups, team meetings and manager 1:1s
• Provide on-call support for services owned by the search team on a rotational basis
• Provide feedback to co-workers in written form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from manager and peers 
• Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture in the newly created office
• Represent Box Poland internally and externally
  

Who You Are?

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience in an object oriented language such as Java, Scala, or C++. Proficiency in scripting languages like PHP or Python is a plus.
• You have hands-on experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and containerised micro-services. 
• You are able to assess, communicate and complete project milestones with manager and team members in a time sensitive manner. 
• You speak English proficiently.
  
  

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with public cloud systems such as AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalent
• Familiarity with Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval engines
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or similar container orchestrator
• Experience with Scala and a MapReduce framework and queuing systems such as Kafka or equivalents
  
  

Head-over-heels about this role — but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience. 

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