Software Engineer III, Reliability

📋 Description

• Partner with product and platform engineering teams to assess service designs for scalability and performance risks, ensuring systems are built for long-term growth.
• Analyze production workloads, system metrics, and load test results to identify bottlenecks, resource inefficiencies, and architectural scaling limits.
• Design and build frameworks for load testing, capacity modeling, and performance validation that enable teams to proactively address scale concerns.
• Drive improvements in backend service efficiency, API response times, and resource utilization across Box's globally distributed platform.
• Collaborate with SRE, infrastructure, and platform teams to optimize scaling strategies, auto-scaling policies, and resource allocation.
• Build automation and tooling that integrate performance validation into CI/CD pipelines, enabling early detection of regressions.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering, with a focus on backend systems and scalability.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go or Java, with an emphasis on building performant services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, resource contention, and efficient system design.
• Hands-on experience analyzing and improving application and system performance across compute, storage, database, and networking layers.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proficient with observability tools and telemetry systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

🎁 Benefits

• United States Pay Range: $165,000 - $206,500 USD.
• Healthcare benefits
• Box Benefits + Perks
• Equity eligibility