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# Senior Software Engineer, Metadata Platform

- **Company:** Box, Inc.
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $198,500.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BigTable, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Content Management, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Queueing Systems, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Google Cloud, Istio, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18879662/Senior-Software-Engineer-Metadata-Platform-California-Redwood-City

## About the Role

* You have at least 4+ years of professional software development experience.
 * You have extensive experience deploying and operating microservices in a cloud environment.
 * You have a proven track record of building services and/or tooling in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Go, Scala, Python).
 * You have experience working with message queues and/or streaming data systems like Kafka/PubSub.

Preferred skills:

 * Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Azure.
 * Experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes., 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.

## Description

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., * Lead design and implementation efforts for new components of our platform, from the ground up.

 * Design and implement scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
 * Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, and Istio.
 * Be heavily involved in setting the platform vision and defining feature roadmaps.
 * Mentor other engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
 * Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection., Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

Notice to applicants in Los Angeles: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.

Notice to applicants in San Francisco: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.