Software Engineer III, Kubernetes

What We Offer

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.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. 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.

Why Join Us?

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.

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.

Who You Are

• 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.

Required 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).

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).

Pay & Benefits

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