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 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

The Database Infra team’s mission is to provide highly-available, easily scalable and consistent physical database clusters to support our clients’ relational data access use cases. Developers at Box routinely face challenges of serving millions of requests per second, while providing enterprise-grade uptime, consistency and performance guarantees. Our goal is to let them focus on business logic, while we make sure the data layer lives up to their requirements.

As the manager of the Database Infra team, you are going to have a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at Box, especially as we take advantage of our new home in the cloud to make our db infrastructure more scalable and performant than ever. Working closely with the database platform team and the database access service layer team, you will get to rethink how to set up our database layer to optimize for performance and efficiency in a high-throughput, low-latency environment. You will lead the team to develop advanced automation solutions to streamline database management, freeing up the team to focus on innovation and strategic solutions.

For more insight into Box's relational data tier, please see the following:

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Work with the team tech leads to define the future of Box DB Infra architecture in the cloud and evolve our systems towards it
Guide team members as they design novel approaches to addressing scale and performance challenges associated with exponentially increasing usage of our data tier
Build a cohesive team with a strong sense of ownership and a culture of fast execution while consistently maintaining a high standard of quality
Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and increased automation to optimize efficiency, reduce toil, and deliver long-term value
Develop objectives and key results to meet business goals, and drive the team to deliver against them
Guide the professional growth of engineers, providing relevant and timely career guidance and feedback
Manage and coordinate the team’s on-call rotation to ensure timely and effective incident response, actively participate in escalated on-call incidents to provide leadership and support, and drive improvements by addressing recurring issues to minimize disruptions

WHO YOU ARE

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
5+ years of experience working with distributed systems
2+ years of leading engineering teams
Strong understanding of common algorithms, data structures and code design principles
Strong grasp of high-scale distributed systems
Passionate about database scale and performance challenges
Strong sense of ownership, persistence and drive, strong communication
Can drive technical discussions and develop their own intuition and point of view about technical challenges facing the team

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.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.

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 on benefits, check out our healthcare benefits and additional Box Benefits + Perks.

In accordance with OFCCP compliance, here is the Pay Transparency Provision.

United States Pay Range

$211,000—$263,500 USD

Engineering Manager II, Core Data