Senior Engineering Manager

WHAT IS BOX? 

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 AstraZeneca, 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.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Box is transforming how enterprises secure and leverage their most valuable content. Shield Threat Protection is our fastest-growing security product, delivering advanced detection and response to protect millions of users and their sensitive data across the Box Content Cloud. We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team building the core detection engines and platform capabilities that keep our customers safe in the age of AI.

In this critical role, you’ll own the technical strategy and execution for enterprise-grade threat detection at massive scale. You’ll guide a distributed team to deliver high-availability services, partner closely with product and infrastructure to evolve the Shield roadmap, and cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture grounded in technical excellence, innovation, and operational rigor.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Example:

• 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.
• Mentor and develop engineers and managers, fostering an inclusive culture and clear structures that enable efficient, high-quality delivery.
• Integrate ML-driven anomaly detection pipelines with existing security systems to enhance precision and coverage.
• Engage with enterprise stakeholders to translate security requirements into scalable solutions that meet compliance and reliability standards.
• 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.

WHO YOU ARE

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.

• 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.
• Inclusive leader who builds psychologically safe, high-performing teams and balances strategic direction with hands-on execution.

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.Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in.If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

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. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

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