Senior Software Backend Engineer, Foundations
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Responsibilities:
- Act as the team's go-to expert for a core area of Foundations, such as identity, authentication, or access control.
- Design and build backend services for the platform in collaboration with other teams.
- Own delivery of complex components within Foundations projects, from design through production.
- Break large projects into well-defined milestones. Communicate risk and status early.
- Investigate and fix tough technical problems the team encounters.
- Identify technical debt and risk before it grows into a larger business problem.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and design review.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly in design docs and team meetings.
- Partner with Product and other engineering teams to align technical work with priorities.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of software development experience, including ownership of complex backend systems.
- Backend programming experience in Python or Go.
- Experience in Platform Engineering or building common platform components.
- A track record of breaking large projects into milestones and delivering on time.
- Experience mentoring engineers through code review and design review.
- Strong Linux and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Comfort working across teams to align technical work with product priorities.
- Experience with incorporating AI into a development workflow and authoring AI-enhanced tooling .
Nice to Have:
Experience with authentication and authorization systems (for example, OAuth, SSO, or role-based access control).
Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
Experience with network management or infrastructure software (for example, NetBox).
Open-source contributions or project involvement.
About NetBox Labs:
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, and 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 (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.
Our culture and values:
We own and solve problems with high attention to detail.
Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win.
We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity
Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly.
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. If you need accommodation at any point in the process, just let us know.
About NetBox Labs
Private software company providing open-source-driven network automation and infrastructure observability tools for enterprises.
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