Box needs to provide highly-available, easily scalable and consistent physical database clusters to support their clients' relational data access use cases, enabling developers to focus on business logic while ensuring the data layer meets enterprise-grade uptime, consistency, and performance guarantees.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working with distributed systems
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and increased automation to optimize efficiency, reduce toil, and deliver long-term value
- Manage and coordinate the team's on-call rotation to ensure timely and effective incident response, actively participate in escalated on-call incidents to provide leadership and support, and drive improvements by addressing recurring issues to minimize disruptions
- 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
- Rethink how to set up our database layer to optimize for performance and efficiency in a high-throughput, low-latency environment
Other
- 2+ years of leading engineering teams
- 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
- Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
