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Software Engineer III, Kubernetes

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4 hours ago
Redwood City, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$165k - $206k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes platform components and services, including clusters, operators, controllers, and admission webhooks.
  • Build and operate scalable, highly available Kubernetes environments across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop internal platform tools and APIs that improve developer productivity and self-service capabilities.
  • Implement reliability, security, observability, and cost-optimization best practices across the Kubernetes platform.
  • Collaborate with application and security teams to understand requirements and provide platform solutions.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues involving Kubernetes, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code tools.
  • Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and platform roadmaps.
  • Mentor early-career engineers and provide technical guidance.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to and triage production issues.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem tools, including Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio or Linkerd, Calico, and Prometheus.
  • Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on public cloud providers such as GCP or AWS.
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools including Terraform and Ansible, along with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and containerization.
  • Passion for open source and keeping current with the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities.
  • Preferred: experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes environments or platform engineering.
  • Preferred: knowledge of cloud-native security practices, including OPA/Gatekeeper, workload identity, and network policies.
  • Preferred: familiarity with cloud cost-management strategies such as autoscaling, rightsizing, and spot or preemptible instances.

Benefits

  • The role requires working from the assigned office at least 3 days per week.
  • The role includes an on-call rotation.
  • The position is eligible for equity and benefits.

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About Box

1,001-5,000 employees

Box builds a cloud content management platform for enterprises, combining secure file storage and sharing with collaboration, governance, e-signature, and workflow automation. It sells subscriptions (SaaS) to organizations that need to manage the lifecycle of business content and integrate with productivity apps. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Box is a public company (NYSE: BOX) used by customers such as JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide.

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