Senior Backend Software Engineer
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 135 - 195
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
NetBox Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our rapidly expanding engineering team. We have multiple openings at different seniority levels across several teams.
A Backend Engineer at NetBox Labs builds the core systems and services that power our productsdesigning reliable APIs data models and distributed systems that scale. They focus on creating robust maintainable software with clean abstractions and strong boundaries enabling other teams to move quickly and confidently. While their primary expertise is backend development they understand how their work connects to the broader product experience collaborating closely with platform and product teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments enjoys solving complex systems problems and takes pride in building elegant resilient software that forms the backbone of modern network and infrastructure automation.
Responsibilities
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 NetBoxs 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 buildparticipate 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.
Nice to Have
Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC)
Experience with scaling large multi-tenant observability systems including ingest analysis and alerting
Experience with SNMP sFlow/NetFlow gNMI and similar telemetry technologies
Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems with security and compliance awareness (e.g. SOC 2).
Experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes and AWS.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot ChatGPT Cursor).
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.
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 worlds 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Build and manage complex networks easier with NetBox Labs, using an enterprise-grade version of the world’s most popular network source of truth.
