Engineering Manager II, Content Automation

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 100,000+ businesses, including many top Fortune 500 companies who trust our secure collaboration platform to manage the entire content lifecycle.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

We are looking for an engineering manager to join our Content Automation space in Amsterdam. You will be responsible to grow and mentor a high performing engineering team.

The ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and has a natural alignment with our Box values. The person in this role will manage a team of 8-12 engineers. The work environment is dynamic and fast-paced.

If this sounds like an exciting challenge to you, come join us!

WHY BOX AND WHY AMSTERDAM

• Excellent company culture - as shown by Glassdoor (rated #2 in best companies to work for)
• International and diverse work environment
• Working culture focusing not only on technical excellence but also on fun and social responsibilities
• Inclusive leadership, valuing the opinion of everyone independently of their career level
• Opportunity to innovate through multiple company programs (e.g. Hackathon, twice a year)
• Excellent support for personal development through online platforms
• Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam, named as the best city in the World for living a happy and healthy life (in Feb 2021)

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead a team of ~10 engineers based in the Netherlands
• Define teams' objectives / key results and ensure it aligns with Box's business goals
• Align, coach and inspire team members to excel on Box values
• Guide the professional growth of engineers, providing relevant and timely career guidance and feedback
• Identify opportunities to increase organizational efficiency by applying industry best practices
• Champion engineering and operational excellence by establishing tier-1 engineering principles
• Promote a culture of ownership and technical excellence, leading by examples

WHO YOU ARE

• You have 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• You have 10+ years of technical experience building full stack web applications or large-scale distributed systems
• You have experience with both Cybersecurity and DevOps best practices - Reliability fundamentals, CI/CD, Test Engineering, Observability
• You have worked with cloud technologies - AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
• You are able to build alignment and execute on new technical ideas
• You have a people-oriented leadership style

HOW WE WORK

• Agile management - mostly Scrum
• Issue tracking tool - Jira
• Knowledge repository - GitHubEnterprise/Confluence/StackOverflow
• Code reviews - GitHubEnterprise
• Version control system - GIT
• Hybrid working model - min 3 days a week in the office, flexibility applies

TOOLS WE'RE USING

• Build server - Jenkins
• Virtualization - Docker
• Provisioning - Terraform/Terragrunt
• Cloud infrastructure - GCP/AWS
• Operating system - Linux, macOS
• Application stack - Typescript/React.js/Node.js, Java
• Databases - PostgreSQL

PERCENTAGE OF TIME SPENT

• Management activities, including technical leadership - 50%
• 1on1 meetings - 30%
• Team meetings - 20%

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, or disability status.

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