Senior Platform PM, Events & Distributed Systems

Box; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Box is seeking a senior product manager to own events, signaling, and asynchronous processing across platform teams. You will partner with engineers and architects to define clear specs, backlogs, and success metrics, while driving efficiency and reducing unnecessary data transfer.

You will coordinate cross-site work (Redwood City, Poland), communicate progress to leadership, and help shape the future of Box's event-driven platforms in a globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management for platform/infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience driving system efficiency with measurable results.
• Comfortable discussing messaging and event-driven architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for events, signaling, and async processing across internal and external use cases.
• Lead product discovery with internal consumer teams; translate requirements into clear specs, backlogs, and metrics.
• Drive efficiency initiatives to reduce data transfer and optimize compute usage.
• Partner with architects and engineering to deliver high-quality releases.
• Establish instrumentation, baselines, and reporting for platform performance and reliability.
• Enable externalization of eventing capabilities with developer docs and guardrails.
• Coordinate cross-site execution (Redwood City, Poland) and align stakeholders on progress.
• Communicate vision and outcomes clearly to leadership and partner teams.

Skills

Product management

Platform/infrastructure

Stakeholder management

Technical discussions

Distributed systems

Tools

Pub/Sub systems

Streaming pipelines

Job description

Box is seeking a senior product manager to own events, signaling, and asynchronous processing across platform teams. You will partner with engineers and architects to define clear specs, backlogs, and success metrics, while driving efficiency and reducing unnecessary data transfer.

You will coordinate cross-site work (Redwood City, Poland), communicate progress to leadership, and help shape the future of Box's event-driven platforms in a globally distributed environment.