Engineering Manager II, Skynet Devex

Engineering Manager II, Skynet DevEx

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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.

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

Box is looking for a technical and inspiring leader to lead our Skynet team in Poland at a pivotal moment in our AI-first journey. This role is critical to scaling a high-performing engineering team that improves developer productivity, accelerates execution, and helps Box build world-class products faster and more effectively. You will shape the team's roadmap, drive delivery against key business priorities, and create the environment for engineers to do their best work. Your leadership will directly influence how we execute, collaborate, and scale, while helping Box continue to transform the way organizations work with content in the AI era.

You are an experienced engineering leader who knows how to build strong teams, deliver impactful platform or developer productivity initiatives, and foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, and technical excellence. You are passionate about coaching and developing engineers, and you bring a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to planning, execution, and cross-functional partnership. You are comfortable balancing strategic thinking with day-to-day operational rigor, and you know how to align engineering work with business outcomes. You thrive in collaborative environments, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and are energized by the opportunity to lead a team in Poland that plays an important role in Box's long-term success. As part of an AI-first company, you are also curious about how AI can improve engineering workflows, decision-making, and team impact.

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering with 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role
• Demonstrated experience improving developer experience through platform, tooling, or workflow investments that increase engineering productivity and reduce delivery friction.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem tools (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus, etc.).
• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on at least one major public cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and containerization.
• Passion about open source and staying up-to-date with the community

Preferred skills

• Experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes environments or platform engineering.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud-native platforms (OPA/Gatekeeper, workload identity, network policies).

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 3 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.

Expectations:

• Lead a team of experienced engineers in Poland.
• Define the team's roadmap, execution plans, and take ownership of project delivery.
• Develop team members through 1:1s, career planning, coaching discussions, and hiring.
• Uphold values by building a collaborative, inclusive team focused on customer impact.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence through emphasis on execution, quality, and scale.
• Organize stand-ups, sprint planning, technical discussions, and manage sprint task statuses.
• Collaborate with product teams to scope new features, provide project estimates, and inform quarterly commitments.
• Work with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to ensure the team delivers significant business impact.
• 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.
• Represent Box internally and externally.

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.