Engineering Leadership at Scale: Managing Change, Risk, and Innovation with Tamar Bercovici (VP of Engineering, Box)

What does engineering leadership look like when your platform serves tens of millions of users and stores one of the largest content repositories on the web?In this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership, I sit down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box, to explore what it takes to lead engineering organizations at scale while navigating constant change.Tamar shares her journey from software engineer to executive leader, the challenges of transitioning from individual contributor to manager and then to organizational leadership, and how she approaches large-scale transformations such as infrastructure migrations and cloud adoption.We discuss how leaders create alignment without micromanaging, why clarity of purpose matters more than control, and how to manage risk in complex, high-stakes engineering environments.In this episode, we explore:Leading large-scale engineering platforms with lean teamsThe transition from IC to manager to organizational leaderAligning engineering work with business impactLeading through major infrastructure and organizational changeCreating clarity of goals so teams can make good local decisionsManaging risk through experimentation and early de-riskingInnovating with AI on top of large-scale content platformsThis conversation is essential listening for engineering leaders navigating growth, complexity, and continuous change.Find the transcript and more in the companion blog post:https://blog-alexis.monville.com/en/2024/05/03/engineering-leadership-at-scale-navigating-complexity-and-change-with-tamar-bercovici/