[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead @NetBox Labs

Role Description

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in our Applications group. NetBox Delivery owns everything between a NetBox Core release and a healthy, running instance on Cloud and Enterprise.

As Tech Lead, you set the technical direction for NetBox Delivery and write much of its code. You will be one of the first engineers on this team and help shape how it works.

In this role you will:

• Design and build the software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox, such as Kubernetes operators, controllers, internal APIs, and release tooling.
• Contribute to NetBox and its core plugins, in collaboration with NetBox Core, to make them faster and more reliable in production.
• Build observability into the software the team owns, and set the team's standards for testing, documentation, and SLOs.
• Own the technical direction and architecture for how NetBox is built, released, and run on Cloud and Enterprise.
• Lead and mentor the team's engineers, including its SRE, through design and code review.
• Work with NetBox Core and the Cloud, Enterprise, and Foundations teams to define release contracts and drive cross-team changes through RFCs.
• Act as a technical escalation point during incidents and make sure postmortem actions get done.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience, including technical ownership of a production system or platform area.
• Strong Python skills and experience with production SaaS applications; Django and Postgres preferred.
• Experience building software on top of Kubernetes, such as operators, controllers, or deployment tooling.
• Experience building observability into applications, including error reporting, distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging.
• Hands-on experience with several tools in our delivery stack: AWS, Kubernetes and Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or FluxCD, Terraform, and Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience leading engineering work without formal manager authority, including mentoring other engineers.
• Hands-on experience building inside an AI-augmented development harness.
• A track record of making technical decisions under ambiguity and driving work across team boundaries.

Requirements

• Nice to haves:
• Rust or Go programming experience.
• Production experience with Django and Postgres at scale.
• Familiarity with the NetBox ecosystem or network automation.
• Experience working in a B2B software startup or high-growth organization.
• Open source contributions or project involvement.
• Experience with self-managed or on-premises delivery.
• Container build skills, including base image design and Python dependency management.
• Experience with supply chain security, such as vulnerability scanning, image signing and SOC 2 controls for build pipelines.

Company Description

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform.

Our products include:

• NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features.
• NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.

NetBox Labs is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better software, and we welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, and veteran status.