NetBox Labs

We make it easier to build and manage complex networks.

Backend Software Engineer, Observability Product

Full TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2023H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

27 days ago

Salary

$135K - $195K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsGrafanaGRPCKafkaMicroservicesPythonRedisGo

Job Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs’ SaaS and on-premise products, including open-source, source-available, and commercial offerings. • Integrate deeply with NetBox’s data model to drive network automation workflows. • Define and evolve APIs and data schemas shared across products and teams, ensuring consistency and scalability. • Maintain and extend backend services that power the user interface and customer-facing experiences. • Design performant and reliable distributed systems, ensuring correctness and data integrity across components. • Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate with authentication, authorization, licensing, and billing services. • Contribute to observability and monitoring across services, ensuring visibility through metrics, logs, and traces. • Profile and optimize database queries, API performance, and service-to-service communication. • Participate in system design reviews, RFC discussions, and architecture working groups to ensure alignment across teams. • Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality standards for backend services. • Operate what you build—participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations to ensure reliability. • Work with Product and UX teams to design intuitive user workflows and data visualizations. • Contribute to technical documentation, specifications, and internal knowledge sharing. • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and architectural discussions.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a startup environment.
  • Proficiency in Golang and Python, with hands-on experience building distributed systems and backend microservices.
  • Strong understanding of gRPC, protobuf, event-driven architecture, and streaming data systems.
  • Experience with Redis Streams, Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, or similar messaging systems.
  • Familiarity with observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces) and protocols such as OpenTelemetry.
  • Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including common protocols and infrastructure components.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear technical specifications and architecture diagrams.
  • Familiarity with visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus

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