Engineering Manager II, Skynet Foundations
WHAT IS BOX?
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 AstraZeneca, 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.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU
Our Mission: Simplify and accelerate how Boxers bring applications to life. We provide a unified platform for configuring, deploying, and running Box services seamlessly, securely, reliably, and efficiently across optimal regions worldwide.
Our team owns Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Kubernetes. With Box being an early adopter, supporter, and contributor of Kubernetes, you will work for the company that introduced kubectl, kube-state-metrics, kube-applier, and kube-exec-controller to the open-source community. Every team and service at Box relies on our platform and we are looking for a leader for this team. This is where you come in!
As a technical and inspiring leader, you will work across organizational and team boundaries in order to drive decisions that align with our future architecture, product, and business goals. You will lead lead our Kubernetes Infrastructure team, responsible for designing, building, and operating our Kubernetes platforms across public cloud environments (GCP, AWS). This role requires strong technical acumen in cloud-native technologies, leadership in building high-performing engineering teams, and strategic thinking to evolve our Kubernetes infrastructure in support of business goals.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Develop objectives and key results to meet business goals, and drive the team to deliver against them
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of thoughtful engineers focused on Kubernetes, service mesh, and cloud-native platform operations.
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Work with cutting-edge technologies that are defining the future of the cloud, such as Kubernetes, Istio, and Docker
- Collaborate with security, platform, and application teams to build reusable, secure, and scalable Kubernetes environments.
- Oversee the automation of cluster provisioning, upgrades, monitoring, and compliance across multi-cloud environments.
- Own the roadmap, design, and operational excellence of Kubernetes clusters deployed on public clouds.
- Engage, contribute and align with Kubernetes best practices in the open source community
WHO YOU ARE
Required skills
- 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering with 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem tools (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus, etc.).
- Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on at least one major public cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and containerization.
- Passion about open source and staying up-to-date with the community
Preferred skills
- Experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes environments or platform engineering.
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud-native platforms (OPA/Gatekeeper, workload identity, network policies).
- Familiarity with cost management strategies in the cloud (e.g., autoscaling, rightsizing, spot/preemptible instances).
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 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.
At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!
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.
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United States Pay Range
$211,000 - $263,500 USD
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