Engineering Manager II, Core Data

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU?

The Event Stream team’s mission is to provide highly-available, consistent and easy-to-use services for near-realtime access to our users’ data graphs. 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 Event Stream team, you are going to have a unique opportunity to shape the future of core data at Box, especially as we take advantage of our new home in the cloud.  Collaborating with several teams across our relational data tier, you will lead the team to develop and scale our near-realtime data access interfaces that provide a change data stream of all actions performed on the graph and a highly scalable data warehouse that can support complex data processing. You will engage with client teams to understand their use cases, enhance the interfaces to support those use cases and drive wider adoption across engineering. You will advocate for and ensure that our services meet our availability, performance and reliability SLOs. Join us in shaping and implementing the roadmap to achieve our team’s technical vision of transforming our core data tier into a truly self-contained platform.

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

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale
• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag
• Percona 2021 talk about building a Change Data Capture (CDC) stream on top of Statement-Based Replication (SBR)

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Work with the team tech leads to define the future of Event Stream 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
• Develop and implement initiatives to ensure our systems consistently meet availability, performance and reliability SLOs

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 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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