Engineering Manager II, Database Infrastructure

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

The DB 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 DB 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:

• Percona 2020 talk about protecting MySQL at scale
• Medium blog post on maintaining strict data consistency in the face of replication lag

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

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

Head-over-heels about this role — but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.

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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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