Cloud Software Engineer, Service Mesh
Architecture
Cloud Software Engineer, Service Mesh
Box
Warszawa
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
Kubernetes
Cloud
Golang
Python
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
Docker
Istio
Java
Ruby
Job description
Online interview
Our Mission: Transform the way Boxers build services so they can deliver awesome products by providing a common platform to configure, deploy, and run Box services seamlessly, securely, reliably, and efficiently in optimal regions of the world.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build and scale Service Mesh infrastructure with focus on scalability, performance, security and availability on top of Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer based on Kubernetes. Every team and service at Box relies on this infrastructure. This is where you come in! With Box being an early adopter, supporter, and contributor of Kubernetes, you will work for the company that introduced kubectl, kube-state-metrics, and kube-applier to the open-source community. Our team owns services that are critical to Box's platform and you will work across organizational and team boundaries in order to drive key initiatives that align with our future architecture, product, and business goals. You will be at the forefront of Box's journey to the next-generation, Service Mesh infrastructure based on Istio, including the migration from on-prem, multi-region data centers to Google Cloud
Your Role
You'll architect and lead engineering efforts for new components and services in our Kubernetes-based service platform and beyond.
This means you will;
- Work with cutting-edge technologies that are defining the future of the cloud, such as Kubernetes, Istio, and Docker
- Provide hands-on experience with Service Mesh, SideCar and Cloud Native architecture, Security, Networking, Observability and distributed tracing.
- Be heavily involved in driving the platform vision and writing design documents for potential projects
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team and mentor team members to foster solid engineering principles and represent our engineering values
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the services and components the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues
- Use both technical and relational skills to lead projects to completion striving for best-in-class development experience
- Engage with Box’s engineering community to build relationships, identify potential areas of improvement and help drive adoption of our team’s offerings
- Collaborate and drive for improvement across engineering team
- Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture in the newly created office
- Represent Box Poland internally and externally
You will be a great fit if:
- You love building distributed systems for large scale, high volume applications
- You are passionate about solving complex problems using data-driven solutions
- You believe all infrastructure should be deployed as code
- You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions
Mandatory Requirements:
- You have 5+ years of experience designing and building cloud-native architecture for cloud such as AWS, GCP
- Experience architecting, designing, operationalizing container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Experience with ServiceMesh like Istio or any other Envoy based ServiceMesh
- Well versed with Circuit Breaker, Traffic Routing, Service discovery pattern
- Good understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals
- You have a proven track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java, Ruby)
- Passion about open source and staying up-to-date with the community
- You speak English proficiently
Requirements that are Welcome:
- Experience running deployment automation/configuration management systems at scale, e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or others
- You have contributed to open source projects and developer communities such as StackOverflow and/or GitHub
- Certifications for Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and/or other technologies