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Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - NetBox Delivery

NetBox Labs, US East Coast Remote

Posted pay

$110K–$240K

a year

Location: US East Coast Remote
Work type: Remote
Level: Staff
Experience: 7+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
AWS
Kubernetes
Go
Rust
Terraform
PostgreSQL
Django
Grafana
Helm
Prometheus
Posted: Oct 9, 2026
Last check: 2 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in our Applications group.

NetBox is a product that reaches people in a few ways: our open source community runs NetBox OSS; commercial customers use NetBox Cloud (SaaS) or NetBox Enterprise (self-managed). NetBox Delivery owns everything between a NetBox Core release and a healthy, running instance on Cloud and Enterprise. We work closely with NetBox Core, the team that builds NetBox and its core plugins. We ship the software, keep an eye on it in production, and when something breaks, we fix it at the source rather than working around it.

As Tech Lead, you set the technical direction for NetBox Delivery and write much of its code. You bring strong software engineering skills, SaaS experience, and hands-on DevOps and Kubernetes skills. You will be one of the first engineers on this team and help shape how it works.

What you will do

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

What you need

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, with a solid understanding of reconciliation loops, custom resources, and the Kubernetes API
Experience building observability into applications, including error reporting, distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging, with tools such as OpenTelemetry and Sentry
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, including Claude Code and the workflows that make agentic tooling reliable
A track record of making technical decisions under ambiguity and driving work across team boundaries, from writing the RFC to getting a cross-team migration done

Nice to have

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

About NetBox Labs

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.

Legal notes

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.

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