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Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.\nBy 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.\nWHY BOX NEEDS YOU \nMetadata is a key component of the Box Content Cloud, enabling customers to add rich context to their files and transforming them into actionable, intelligent content. In its current iteration, it's used across the enterprise to organize, discover, annotate, secure, and retain content at massive scale. Metadata Platform adoption continues to grow exponentially as more core Box products, such as Shield, Automate, Extract, Sign, and Governance, rely on it internally, and as our customers build mission-critical custom applications leveraging its capabilities.\nBut we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. That's where you come in!\nAs we embark on the mission to deliver Box's next-generation Metadata Platform, we are looking for an Engineering Manager II to lead, grow, and mentor a team of talented, collaborative engineers responsible for developing and scaling these foundational capabilities. In this role, your technical leadership and people management will ensure our platform capabilities are delivered securely, reliably, and compliantly worldwide, while fostering a team culture of high ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence. The work you and your team do will have an immediate and lasting impact on how millions of users at the world's most important enterprises manage and work with their critical content.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nPartner with product management and technical leadership to define platform vision and roadmaps.\nLead, coach, and develop a team of engineers focused on building scalable distributed systems, enabling them to do their best work.\nLead design and implementation efforts for new services and components of our platform, from the ground up.\nDrive design and implementation of scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.\nWork with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark, Istio, etc.\nStrengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.\nWHO YOU ARE\nYou have 6+ years of experience in software engineering with 2 or more of those years in a management role\nYou have proven experience managing and scaling high-performing engineering teams in complex, large-scale production environments\nYou are an excellent communicator, able to clearly articulate technical vision and foster alignment across diverse stakeholders.\nYou are a collaborative leader who empowers engineers, promotes ownership, and drives accountability\nYou have experience owning and operating highly available business critical systems.\nYou have a Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Engineering, or a related field.\nBased in or willing to work from our Redwood City office at least 3 days per week\nNice to Haves\nFamiliarity with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval systems.\nFamiliarity with the RAG pattern and vector/semantic search systems.\nExperience with public clouds like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Azure.\nExperience deploying and operating high volume and velocity microservices on Kubernetes.\nBox 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 3 days per week.Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.\nAt Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!\nEQUAL OPPORTUNITY\nWe 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.\nBox 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.\nNotice to applicants in Los Angeles: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here. \nNotice to applicants in San Francisco: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here. \nFor details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice. If you are a California-resident, please read our California Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice here.\nNOTICE OF USE OF AI \nAt Box, we believe in the power of AI to improve the recruiting process while keeping people at the heart of every decision. For more information on the use of AI in our hiring process, please visit our webpage here.\nBox is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. 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