Senior Software Engineer, Trust and Safety Engineering

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer, Trust and Safety Engineering

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We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Trust and Safety Engineering team based in Redwood City, California, United States. This role focuses on Security and is a critical part of our efforts to protect Box, its platform, and its customers from abuse, fraud, and malicious actors.

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Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve security systems that protect Box, its platform, and its customers from abuse, fraud, malicious actors, and insider threats.
• Develop scalable APIs and backend services that detect, prevent, and disrupt abuse campaigns across Box’s microservice infrastructure.
• Build behavioral detection systems and near-real-time mitigation workflows to identify suspicious usage patterns, risky traffic, and emerging attack techniques.
• Apply analytics and machine learning approaches to model malicious behavior, improve detection accuracy, and reduce false positives.
• Strengthen platform defenses through rate limiting, automated enforcement, and other mitigation controls that balance security with customer experience.
• Build resilient, containerized microservices in distributed environments that support high-volume trust and safety protections at scale.
• Partner closely with security, product, and engineering teams to translate threat trends into durable product and platform safeguards.
• Contribute to Box’s broader technical security strategy by identifying systemic risks, proposing defenses, and improving security engineering practices.
• Proactively evaluate evolving abuse and fraud patterns to help Box stay ahead of new threats with intelligent, scalable protections.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, PHP, or Scala.
• Experience building containerized microservices in large-scale, distributed environments.
• Preferred qualifications include experience with machine learning models, large-scale datasets, Java Spring/Spring Boot, Terraform-based public cloud infrastructure, and trust and safety, abuse, or fraud mitigation systems.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and reporting skills.
• Strong analytical, system design, engineering, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $211,000-$255,000 USD
• Equity and benefits
• Flexible time off, birthday holidays, VTO, and a sabbatical after seven years
• Growth opportunities through learning programs and clear career paths
• Healthcare, mental health, wellbeing, and family support benefits
• Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
• Fresh Air Days and a monthly wellness subsidy
• Community involvement opportunities and paid volunteer time off

About the Company

Box (NYSE:BOX) 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.

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 strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.

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