What is Box?

Box (NYSE) 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 you:

Shuttle is Box’s enterprise migration solution. Its mission is to help organizations securely and efficiently move their content from legacy systems and third-party storage providers into Box. This capability is critical for customer adoption, as smooth migration is often the first step to unlocking value from Box’s platform. Shuttle ensures migrations are reliable, scalable, and maintain fidelity of files, metadata, and permissions.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Shuttle team, you will take ownership of the architectural consistency and technical direction of key systems that power migrations at scale. You’ll guide design decisions across microservices and adapters, troubleshoot complex distributed environments, and ensure solutions align with Box’s broader architecture — especially as we evolve our metadata and AI capabilities.

What you'll do:

Own architectural consistency and validate significant technical decisions across Shuttle’s services.
Design and guide the evolution of critical systems, including migration adapters and backend microservices.
Drive resolution of complex system-level problems in areas such as Kubernetes orchestration, cloud VMs, and networking.
Ensure fixes address root causes, not just symptoms.
Provide technical mentorship and oversight to senior and mid-level engineers.
Collaborate with other Box teams on integrations (Box Consulting, Archive, Metadata initiatives, and potentially File System and API).
Contribute to roadmap planning by aligning Shuttle’s architecture with Box’s broader goals around metadata and AI.
Participate in our on-call rotation, available at all times while on-call to help respond to and triage any issues that arise.

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.

Essential Skills

10+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong proficiency in Python, including debugging and profiling.
Broad software engineering expertise across multiple languages and paradigms.
Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud environments (preferably GCP).
Ability to debug complex system-level issues (threading, networking, VM behavior).
Strong architectural thinking, ensuring consistency and scalability across services.
English proficiency at B2 level or higher.

Valuable Skills

Experience with Node.js and JavaScript, especially for adapters and integrations.
Exposure to frontend development patterns (not required but helpful).
Familiarity with enterprise migrations or large-scale content management systems.

Mindset

Systems thinker who understands both deep technical detail and cross-service architectural alignment.
Opinionated yet collaborative, able to challenge peers constructively.
Proactive ownership and drive to ensure solutions are complete, correct, and maintainable.
Diplomatic leadership style that mentors and uplifts others while maintaining technical authority.

BENEFITS

Check out the overview of Life at Box which includes general perks and benefits.

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 and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

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.

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