Incident Commander
Posted 2 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Incident Commander”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
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 YO
Box is looking for a Senior Incident Commander with a strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) skillset and proficient Python for tooling and automation. The GTOC (Global Technical Operations Center) team protects the customer experience, and responsible for detecting customer-impacting failures early, drive rapid mitigation when they occur, coordinate production change risk, and continuously improve how Box runs incidents.
In this role, you will be leading critical and blocker incidents and driving them to swift resolution, while leveraging your software engineering expertise to design and build the tools, automation, and processes that define the next generation of cloud operations. You will shape how we improve manageability, observability, and resiliency of our most critical services, and drive down MTTx so that when incidents happen, we respond faster and smarter than ever before.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own and direct live-site Critical and Blocker (and other high severity) incidents from identification and escalation through mitigation and recovery.
- Triage, refine, and verify the problem and customer-impact statements. Organize the incident bridge, establish clear swim lanes, coordinate SME’s resources, and lead cross-functional Incident Bridges to mitigate issues and restore service quickly.
- Improve Incident Platform tooling - Optimize templates, automate repetitive response steps, and develop tooling to reduce operational overhead and time to mitigate.