Our Mission: Transform the way Boxers build services so they can deliver awesome products by providing a common platform to configure, deploy, and run Box services seamlessly, securely, reliably, and efficiently in optimal regions of the world.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build and scale
Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer based on Kubernetes. With Box being an early adopter, supporter, and contributor of Kubernetes, you will work for the company that introduced
kubectl,
kube-state-metrics, and
kube-applier to the open-source community. Our team owns services and offerings to serve our users with deployment configurations, application management, high-availability setups, migration tooling, and effortless integrations into other platform components such as our service mesh and observability stack. You will be at the forefront of Box's journey to the next-generation, Kubernetes-native infrastructure, including the migration from on-prem, multi-region data centers to Google Cloud (Google Kubernetes Engine).
Your role:
You'll architect and lead engineering efforts for new components and services in our Kubernetes-based service platform and beyond.
This means you will:
- Work with cutting-edge technologies that are defining the future of the cloud, such as Kubernetes, Istio, and Docker
- Be heavily involved in driving the platform vision and writing design documents for potential projects
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team and mentor team members to foster solid engineering principles and represent our engineering values
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the services and components the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues
- Use both technical and relational skills to lead projects to completion striving for best-in-class development experience
- Engage with Box’s engineering community to build relationships, identify potential areas of improvement and help drive adoption of our team’s offerings
- Collaborate and drive for improvement across engineering team
- Play a role in developing and fostering Box culture in the newly created office
- Represent Box Poland internally and externally
Mandatory Requirements:
- You have 5+ years of experience
- You have a proven track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python)
- You have in-depth knowledge of how the cloud works and love to share that knowledge with others
- You have an interest in building internal products with other engineers as your customers
- You have extensive experience deploying and operating services in a cloud environment
- You can inspire other people to work with you, and you enjoy mentoring and coaching more junior engineers
- You speak English proficiently
Requirements that are Welcome:
- Experience running deployment automation/configuration management systems at scale, e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or others
- You have contributed to open source projects and developer communities such as StackOverflow and/or GitHub
- Certifications for Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and/or other technologies
You will be a great fit if:
- You love building distributed systems for large scale, high volume applications
- You are passionate about solving complex problems using data-driven solutions
- You believe all infrastructure should be deployed as code
- You act like an owner and strive to do work you're proud of, both technically and in your team interactions