Senior Software Engineer, Microservice Foundation

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WHAT IS BOX? Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift. WHY BOX NEEDS YO 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. Key capabilities include: Core Service Functions: Standardized annotations, dynamic configuration, unified error handling, filters, and listeners Code Generation & Build Utilities: Automatic generation of Java server-side stubs, and client SDKs from OpenAPI schemas (OAS 3.x specifications), and seamless integration with Gradle build tool Observability & Logging: Out-of-the-box structured logging, comprehensive metrics and distributed tracing for end-to-end visibility Security & Permissions : Robust endpoint protection and standardized REST API security protocols HTTP Client & Communication : Standardized HTTP clients and seamless integrations with messaging systems like GCP Pub/Sub and MQS/JMS Database & Persistence : A Spring Data-inspired framework built over Box’s high-performance distributed data access layer WHAT YOU'LL DO 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) WHO YOU ARE We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box. Required Skills 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 Preferred Skills: Experience with GCP or equivalent Familiarity / experience with Microservices architecture Tech Stack You’ll Work With Languages: Java, Scala, PHP Libraries/Frameworks: Spring Boot, Vert.x/Netty, GCP Pub-Sub, OpenAPI Specification, Okhttp, Gradle Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Redis/Memcache Observability/Monitoring: SLF4J, Chronospehere (PromQL), PagerDuty, Otel, BigQuery, GCL Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture. Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week.Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process. At Box, we believe unique a