Box needs a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team building the core detection engines and platform capabilities for Shield Threat Protection, delivering advanced detection and response to protect millions of users and their sensitive data across the Box Content Cloud.
Requirements
- 12+ years in software engineering with 6+ years in engineering management, including managing managers and scaling distributed teams.
- Deep expertise in modern distributed systems and cloud-native architectures; experience operating autoscaling, high-availability services in production (GCP preferred).
- Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code; strong CI/CD experience (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory) and observability (e.g., Chronosphere).
- Full-stack foundation with Java/Spring Boot and React/TypeScript; able to guide architectural decisions across the stack.
- Security engineering experience building or integrating threat detection systems; knowledge of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and compliance regimes (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining ML-based anomaly detection pipelines using platforms like Vertex AI or similar (approximately 10% of the role).
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to align technical vision with cross-functional partners and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for Shield Threat Protection's core detection and response capabilities.
- Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for highly available, autoscaling services that protect enterprise content at scale.
- Deliver robust detection engines for malware, ransomware, and data exfiltration, along with real-time alerting dashboards and automated response workflows.
- Partner with Product and Infrastructure to shape the roadmap, prioritize outcomes, and align on scalable, secure designs.
- Establish strong engineering practices across CI/CD, observability, testing, and incident response to maintain 99.9%+ uptime.
- Integrate ML-driven anomaly detection pipelines with existing security systems to enhance precision and coverage.
- 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.
Other
- Inclusive leader who builds psychologically safe, high-performing teams and balances strategic direction with hands-on execution.
- Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- Notice 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.
