Software Engineer III, Kubernetes

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 JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Our Mission: Simplify and accelerate how Boxers bring applications to life. We provide a unified platform for configuring, deploying, and running Box services seamlessly, securely, reliably, and efficiently across optimal regions worldwide.

Our team owns Box's Platform as a Service (PaaS) based on Kubernetes. With Box being an early adopter, supporter, and contributor of Kubernetes, you will work for the company that introduced kubectl, kube‑state‑metrics, kube‑applier, and kube‑exec‑controller to the open‑source community. Every team and service at Box relies on our platform and we are looking for a leader for this team. This is where you come in!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes platform components and services (e.g., clusters, operators, controllers, admission webhooks).
• Build and operate scalable, highly available Kubernetes environments in hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Develop internal platform tools and APIs to improve developer productivity and self‑service capabilities.
• Implement best practices for reliability, security, observability, and cost optimization across the Kubernetes platform.
• Collaborate with application and security teams to understand requirements and provide platform solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues related to Kubernetes, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code terraform.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and platform roadmaps.
• Mentor early‑career engineers and provide technical guidance within the team.
• Stay current with Kubernetes ecosystem trends, CNCF projects, and cloud‑native best practices.

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.

Required skills

• 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem tools (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio/Linkerd, Calico, Prometheus, etc.).
• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on public cloud provider (GCP, AWS).
• Proven experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, Ansible) 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)
• Familiarity with cost management strategies in the cloud (e.g., autoscaling, rightsizing, spot/preemptible instances).

Compensation and Benefits

Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.

In accordance with OFCCP compliance, here is the Pay Transparency Provision.

United States Pay Range: $165,000 — $206,500 USD