Location: Palo Alto, CA
URL: http://www.box.net/
Box.net is seeking an awesome Software Engineer for our Palo Alto, CA office. We’re a young, venture-backed startup providing online storage and sharing to over a million registered users. We have several dozen servers and manage over 100 terabytes of raw storage. You’ll be our "backend guru," tasked with designing and executing projects to optimize, refactor, and add new capabilities to our backend PHP/MySQL architecture. Extensive experience with PHP, web development frameworks and web site architecture is an absolute must, along with a vigilant thirst to learn new things. Sample projects: ⢠Refactor a portion of the codebase towards a design pattern or a more proper MVC architecture. ⢠Implement a more advanced, robust upload method. ⢠Benchmark some of our most common requests and find and solve bottlenecks in MySQL and PHP. ⢠Test out new servers and technologies; play with some of the latest and greatest tech, like 8- and 16-core servers. Sound interesting? E-mail us!
To apply: Send your resume and a cover letter to Sam at jobs@box.net with subject line "Software Engineer," and we’ll get back to you ASAP.