netboxlabs - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - NetBox Delivery
Requirements
• 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 • 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
Responsibilities
• 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
Benefits
• Remote, USRemote, US $220K – $240K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Remote, LATAMRemote, LATAM $110K – $125K • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here
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