Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

By 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.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Our Mission: Transform the way developers build services by providing a common platform to configure, deploy and run applications seamlessly across different regions of the world so that they can deliver exceptional products. Our team manages Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) 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, kube-applier, and kube-exec-controller to the open-source community. Every team and service at Box relies on our platform and we are looking for a passionate technical leader for this team. This is where you come in! 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to develop our Kubernetes platform and maintain its stability as well as drive the functionality, capability and efficiency of our infrastructure to the next level. You will be the technical lead inside the cloud native team to design, develop, automate, and continuously improve K8s cluster life cycle management across GKE and EKS, platform services and pipelines, such as monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc. We are looking for a passionate engineer to join and collaborate with Cloud Native partner teams, Box developer community and open-source communities to advance Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across GKE and EKS environments.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
• Monitor and troubleshoot GKE and EKS components to ensure high availability and performance in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Implement security best practices for Kubernetes infrastructure and services.
• Participate in our Kubernetes on-call schedule once a month
• Proactively and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Manage our CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps tools and processes.
• Work closely with developers to ensure that their applications are properly deployed and configured in Kubernetes.

WHO YOU ARE

Required skills:

• At least 5 years of experience deploying, managing and operating multiple GKE/EKS clusters & large-scale container workloads in production environments.
• 5+ years experience with managing and deploying IaC via Terraform and Atlantis
• 3+ years of experience with monitoring & observability tools such as Splunk, Chronosphere, Edge Delta and etc.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in automation in declarative fashion using Terraform, Ansible and in imperative languages like shell scripting and python scripting.
• Experience with Kubernetes CNI deployment and troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) the following CNIs: Calico, Cilium.
• Good understanding and working knowledge on CI/CD processes with products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins and etc across multiple systems (application & infrastructure).
• Good understanding and working knowledge about various microservices like spring boot or node.js.

Preferred skills:

• Kubernetes operator and controller development.
• FinOps knowledge
• Experience with performing POC technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the Cloud.

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.

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.

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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