Engineering Manager II, Metadata Platform

Box · Redwood City, CA, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $217,000 – $271,500
  • Posted 2026-11-09
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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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

Metadata is a key component of the Box Content Cloud, enabling customers to add rich context to their files and transforming them into actionable, intelligent content. In its current iteration, it's used across the enterprise to organize, discover, annotate, secure, and retain content at massive scale. Metadata Platform adoption continues to grow exponentially as more core Box products, such as Shield, Automate, Extract, Sign, and Governance, rely on it internally, and as our customers build mission-critical custom applications leveraging its capabilities.

But we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. That's where you come in!

As we embark on the mission to deliver Box's next-generation Metadata Platform, we are looking for an Engineering Manager II to lead, grow, and mentor a team of talented, collaborative engineers responsible for developing and scaling these foundational capabilities. In this role, your technical leadership and people management will ensure our platform capabilities are delivered securely, reliably, and compliantly worldwide, while fostering a team culture of high ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence. The work you and your team do will have an immediate and lasting impact on how millions of users at the world's most important enterprises manage and work with their critical content.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Partner with product management and technical leadership to define platform vision and roadmaps.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers focused on building scalable distributed systems, enabling them to do their best work.

• Lead design and implementation efforts for new services and components of our platform, from the ground up.

• Drive design and implementation of scalable services with a focus on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.

• Work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable, Elasticsearch, Spark, Istio, etc.

• Strengthen engineering processes, principles, and culture within the team and across Box, by championing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and blameless retrospection.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have 6+ years of experience in software engineering with 2 or more of those years in a management role

• You have proven experience managing and scaling high-performing engineering teams in complex, large-scale production environments

• You are an excellent communicator, able to clearly articulate technical vision and foster alignment across diverse stakeholders.

• You are a collaborative leader who empowers engineers, promotes ownership, and drives accountability

• You have experience owning and operating highly available business critical systems.

• You have a Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Based in or willing to work from our Redwood City office at least 3 days per week

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch/Solr/Lucene or other information retrieval systems.

• Familiarity with the RAG pattern and vector/semantic search systems.

• Experience with public clouds like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Azure.

• Experience deploying and operating high volume and velocity microservices on Kubernetes.

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 a

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