Engineering Manager, Performance
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 over 100,000 businesses, including 67% of the Fortune 500 who trust Box to manage their content in the cloud.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU
As a manager of the performance engineering team you will be responsible for the user experience at Box scale by ensuring our deployments can support our user workloads. This is highly cross-functional role and will partner with various engineering teams across Software, Platform, FinOps, Architecture and Product Management.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Responsible for performance bottleneck analysis for user workflows using Observability tools, application profilers etc.
- Responsible for benchmarking efforts, automated performance testing and workload optimizations
- Driving the performance roadmap to deliver cost-effective, optimized and scalable cloud deployments. across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes running hundreds of microservices
- Manage one of the largest areas of spend at the company by balancing high utilization and cost efficiency of our infrastructure with risk and developer velocity
- Partner with Development, Product, Architecture, and Business teams to evaluate and manage impacts of new products and features, architecture and hosting strategy changes, and infrastructure partnerships to ensure efficient scaling and cost efficiency.
- Continue building and developing a world-class engineering team through coaching, mentoring, and career development
WHO YOU ARE
Required skills
- 5+ years of experience with performance engineering for SaaS applications
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM
- 2+ years of direct management experience
- 2+ years of experience working with private and public clouds (IAAS, GCP, AWS, etc) and capacity management principles
Preferred skills
- Strong skills using Locust, JMeter, LoadRunner or any other industry standard load testing tool.
- Experience in the internals of JVMs, performance profiling, optimization, analyzing Thread dumps, Memory dumps for bottlenecks
- Experience architecting solutions for high volume transactional SaaS Systems.
- Experience architecting solutions for high scale, high volume distributed platforms (K8S, HBase, Caching etc.)
- Experience profiling applications written using Java Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, PHP etc.
- Hands-on experience building enterprise level test automation and performance test framework.
BENEFITS
- Visit this webpage to check out all of our exciting healthcare benefits: https://join.collectivehealth.com/box
- For all other benefits, please check out: Box Benefits + Perks
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. Accommodations are available throughout the application process and an employee’s employment at Box.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
To promote the health and safety of all Boxers and our communities, in order to "Go to Work" at Box in the U.S., you must be Fully Vaccinated or have an approved accommodation. "Go(ing) to Work" at Box is defined as visiting a Box office, facility, or co-working site, visiting or meeting in person with fellow Boxers, Box clients and/or customers, vendors, or partners, engaging in business travel, and or participating in any Box-sponsored and/or related activity where others are present. If you are fully remote and do not "Go to Work,” the vaccination requirement is not applicable. "Fully Vaccinated" means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, a sincerely-held religious belief or another legally recognized reason, Box will consider requests for an accommodation.
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