Backend Software Engineer

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October 20

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NetBox Labs

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B2B • SaaS • Enterprise

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, a leading platform for operating, automating, and securing networks and infrastructure. It offers products like NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise, designed to serve as a network source of truth, facilitating network automation, configuration management, and data integration for organizations. With a focus on user community and open-source development, NetBox Labs aims to simplify network management and drive efficiency in network operations.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs’ SaaS and on-premise products. • Integrate deeply with NetBox’s data model to drive network automation workflows. • Define and evolve APIs and data schemas shared across products and teams. • 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.

🎯 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