Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - NetBox Delivery

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, from application startup to Postgres query performance

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, as the team's primary technical decision maker

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

Rust or Go programming experience

Production experience with Django and Postgres at scale, including schema design, migration risk, and query performance

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

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.

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.