Senior Software Engineer, Observability - Box
Redwood City, CA
About the Job
WHAT IS BOX?
Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal.
By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers over 100,000 businesses, including 67% of the Fortune 500 who trust Box to manage their content in the cloud.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU
The main focus of the Observability Team is to build frameworks and systems that can manage the performance of Box systems while scaling to billions of events per second. Additionally, we are responsible to standardize observability across engineering teams, drive designs for high performing services and foster great observability practices. We build, scale, and operate low-latency, high-throughput data systems that power high resiliency of Box Systems. You will help us execute on this vision and ensure that Box continues to ship scalable services that can hold against the high-performance expectation from our customers.
We are looking for big thinkers and innovators who have experience working with scalable distributed systems and have a passion for high performance and reliability. We are a small team with big ambitions that values impact and is not afraid of huge, gnarly problems. If this excites you, come join us!.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Reliability and great customer experience is a constant focus at Box and this creates a continued set of requirements for observability of complex systems. We need your expertise with observability technologies like logging, metrics, search, analytics and tracing to build impactful instrumentation and efficient data pipelines for application performance management at Box. We hope you can contribute best practices for monitoring at scale and use them to strengthen the observability strategy and culture at Box.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- You have built distributed, high-throughput and low-latency data pipelines with a strong focus on availability, resilience, and durability.
- You have a fair understanding of technologies like Zipkin / Jaeger, or other Distributed Tracing framework
- You are well versed in Open Tracing, Open Census, and Open Telemetry
- You have experience working with tools like Splunk, SignalFx, Prometheus etc.
- You are passionate about solving hard problems using data-driven solutions
- You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions
- You have experience with at least one of the core programming languages like Java, Scala, Rust, Golang etc.
- You have 5+ years of experience in building scalable distributed systems
- You have a BS/MS/ Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
You are in an office based role with the expectation of working from the Redwood City Office a minimum of 2x/week.
BENEFITS
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- For all other benefits, please check out: Box Benefits + Perks
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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