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.

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

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! 

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Kubernetes Platform Team. In this role, you will design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure that enables product teams to deploy and run applications efficiently. You will work on core platform services, improve developer experience, and contribute to the long-term evolution of our cloud-native platform. This role requires strong backend engineering skills, deep knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, and the ability to work independently on complex technical problems.

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).