Engineering Manager II, Database Infrastructure

Company:  Box
Location: Redwood City
Closing Date: 28/10/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Level: M-L7

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.

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

WORKING 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. 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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United States Pay Range: $204,500 — $255,500 USD

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