Must have

• Architecture

• Java

• PHP

• Spring Boot

• OAuth

• English

Nice to have

• GCP

• AWS

• Azure

Requirements description

Who you are:

• You have 8+ years of experience in backend development, including leading significant technical initiatives.
• You’ve worked on mission-critical systems, ideally in areas like identity, authentication, OAuth.
• You write clean, maintainable code in Java and have strong experience with Spring Boot
• You think in terms of platforms, not just features—you build with extensibility and maintainability in mind.
• You have experience operating large-scale distributed systems with high uptime and security expectations.
• You’re comfortable mentoring engineers and collaborating across cross-functional teams.
• You thrive in a well-structured environment and enjoy building scalable solutions in established, mature systems

Requirements that are Welcome:

• Experience in enterprise security or authentication domains.
• Familiarity with zero trust models and device posture management.
• Experience with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Prior experience working on internal platforms or systems that require high reliability and compliance

Offer description

**Our compensation structure is the base salary and equity in the form of restricted stock units.

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

About the Team:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Creation team, you will be at the forefront of real time applications within Box. Being one of the core applications, we are one of the first stops customers make when using Box platform. You will play an integral role in paving the future path for what it means to generate content within Box.

The Content Creation owns Notes and Canvas products of Box's platform. The functionality that this team builds is used by our largest cohorts of users (versus just admin users). They are the only true real-time service at Box, using web sockets to deliver a real-time editing product. It's a complex problem space that we are experts in, and it's a great team to join if you want to contribute to creating one of the most vital Box products. The team is mostly developing Front-End with react.js, for Back-End tasks they use mostly node.js.

Why Box needs you:

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Security Products & Platforms organization. Spanning teams across Redwood City and Warsaw, this group builds some of Box’s most critical systems, delivering world-class access security. In this role, you’ll drive key initiatives, collaborating closely with product and infrastructure teams. We’re seeking a technically strong engineer who excels in platform-level thinking, has experience with large-scale systems, and is motivated by the challenges of building highly available, secure services for enterprise customers. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role reporting directly to the Director of Engineering.

Percentage of Time Spent:

• 30% Coding
• 20% Technical investigation
• 15% Documentation
• 10% Developer support and mentoring
• 15% Meetings
• 10% On-call activities and bug fixing

Methodology:

• Agile management - Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - Confluence
• Code reviews - GitHubEntreprise
• Version control system - GIT

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, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

Your responsibilities

1. Design, build, and maintain mission-critical enterprise software that enforces trusted access to Box from client devices and platforms like Web, Mobile and Desktop.
2. Lead the development of software components in the authentication and secure access domain, ensuring they are resilient, performant, and secure.
3. Build and own key services end-to-end—from architecture and design to implementation and deployment. Ensure high system availability and performance through observability, alerting and on-call support.
4. Drive architectural discussions and help guide the evolution of Box’s security infrastructure.
5. Mentor and coach other engineers on the team.
6. Collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers and security teams to define and deliver robust secure device management and access control capabilities over multiple-quarter long initiatives.

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