M+E Technology Job Board

Director of Future Architecture

Box

At Box, we strive to foster a culture of transparency and inclusiveness, we aim to execute quickly, and we are committed to doing the right thing for our end users. We value leaders who are life-long learners, passionate about continuous improvement for themselves, their teams, and their products.

Purpose
Every business in the world is looking to modernize the way they work. The Box Platform offers companies a way to store, manage, and collaborate on even their most sensitive content, removing silos and boosting productivity both within and outside their organization. This is where Box thrives and what differentiates us from our competition. We are changing the way people work at a global scale.

The Developer Experience and Productivity team is responsible for providing the next generation service platform and architecture that enables the rest of our engineering teams to deliver more value faster to our customers. From building service frameworks, API management, to providing resiliency patterns, traffic management, authentication and authorization, this team is the driver of microservices and devops transformation that will accelerate our business.

Why the team needs you
We need someone passionate about global-scale infrastructure challenges, with a taste for a customer-centric approach. You have experience building high-performing teams, organize technical strategy and you can also empathize with customers and other Box teams such as Compliance, Security and Finance. We hope to learn from you about management best practices and insights you have developed in your career.

Why Box needs you
Box is growing fast. Real fast. Every business in the world is looking to modernize the way that they work. As the leader in cloud content management, Box is the only company that can help enterprises transform how people work together. To execute on that vision we are investing in our infrastructure to allow us to build more secure and quality products faster. Come join us and lead the team to execute on this exciting vision!

Why you need Box
You are going to have the unique opportunity to define and build the next generation of Box service infrastructure, be at the core of our engineering transformation to microservices, and partner with all engineering teams to drive and guide them through that process. You teams will build the fundamental services of our infrastructure, drive our service architecture, define all the frameworks and patterns to effectively enable our overall engineering evolution.

Who you are

You are an individual with a high level of integrity, a team-focused approach, and with collaboration skills to build tight-knit relationships across Box

You are a self-aware, collaborative leader with the ability to listen to your team while making decisions

You are able to inspire other people to work with you, and you enjoy mentoring and coaching

You have a strong ownership mentality with a bias for action

You care strongly about the customer experience

You’re technical skills are strong – You’re able to ask the right question, evaluate, and hire excellent engineers

You have a deep technical understanding of microservice architecture and agile processes

You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a thirst for learning

5+ years of management experience including 3+ years managing multiple teams and other managers, with a consistent track record in technical execution and team building