Engineering Manager II, Filesystem

What is Box? 

Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration, and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies, who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle. 

Why Box needs you:
Box’s Filesystem is not like the file system on your laptop. It’s the very core of the Box product. Virtually every feature at Box interacts with the Filesystem, making it perhaps the most critical part of our architecture. It is a single, constantly evolving platform for content access, used by both internal and external clients, and serving tens of thousands of customers (including most of the Fortune 500), and millions of users. The Box Filesystem operates at millions of requests per second and through its advanced permissions system secures the hundreds of billions of pieces of content stored in Box. It also manages the collaboration on that content, which is one of the foundational capabilities of Box that is used by virtually every customer. Box is focused on bringing its vision for the future of content management to the rest of the working world, and continuing to enhance the scale and capabilities of the Box Filesystem is a vital part of this journey.

Who you are:

• Ideally, you have over 2 years of experience as a software engineering manager, leading teams responsible for high-scale production services.
• You possess at least 5 years of professional software development experience, contributing to the development of full-stack web applications and/or distributed systems.
• You excel at aligning and executing new technical ideas, demonstrating an understanding of best practices.
• Proven experience in driving effective execution with agile processes in a dynamic environment.
• A people-oriented leader, capable of modelling and fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Exceptional at communicating, passionate about technology and committed to raising the bar.
• Experience working with distributed teams across different time zones is advantageous.
• Proficient in English.

Bonus Points:

• Hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native architecture for AWS, GCP, or similar.
• Passion for open source and staying abreast of community developments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of experienced engineers in Poland.
• Define the team's roadmap, execution plans, and take ownership of project delivery.
• Develop team members through 1:1s, career planning, coaching discussions, and hiring.
• Uphold values by building a collaborative, inclusive team focused on customer impact.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence through emphasis on execution, quality, and scale.
• Organize stand-ups, sprint planning, technical discussions, and manage sprint task statuses.
• Collaborate with product teams to scope new features, provide project estimates, and inform quarterly commitments.
• Work with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to ensure the team delivers significant business impact.
• Represent Box internally and externally.

Methodology:

• Passion for building distributed systems for large-scale, high-volume applications.
• Dedication to solving complex problems using data-driven solutions.
• Belief in deploying all infrastructure as code.
• Ownership mentality, striving for work that you are proud of, both technically and in team interactions.

BENEFITS
Check out the overview of the benefits and additional perks offered at Box.

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.

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.

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