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Overview

Box is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Conversion to join the Conversion Team. The Conversion Team, as part of the Box Storage Platform, designs, builds, and maintains services relating to the processing of customer content and the creation of representations. These representations power features across Box, including Box Intelligence, Preview, Watermarking, Realtime collaboration, Search, Automation, Workflows, and more. This role involves defining the next generation of architecture for this critical part of Box's infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Own and lead the conversion domain, including backend infrastructure and the conversions built on top of it
• Contribute to and inform company objectives across teams using creative, effective, and diplomatic approaches
• Be hands-on with code, including prototyping and contributing production changes
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to develop strategies for evolving the platform
• Work with Product Management to refine requirements and break down complex projects into deliverable units
• Use a data-driven approach to devise strategies for processing customer content while balancing efficiency, quality, and security
• Represent the Conversion team in architecture discussions and cross-functional forums

Who You Are

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of software development experience in distributed systems
• 3+ years in an software architecture oriented role
• Excited about solving complex technical problems using data-driven solutions
• Owner mindset; value pride in work both technically and in team interactions
• AI-first mindset; apply growth-oriented thinking and leverage AI to improve impact

Preferred Skills

• Advanced media conversions, e.g., video
• Extracting structured data from unstructured files (e.g., PDFs)
• Processing data for use in AI/ML applications

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.

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. Box provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities during the application or interview process.

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Salary: United States Pay Range $238,000 - $297,500 USD. Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and offers equity and benefits. For more information on benefits, see our healthcare benefits and Box Benefits + Perks.