Remote Staff Tech Lead: SaaS Platform Engineer

NetBox Labs, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

NetBox Labs seeks a Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in the Applications group. You will set the technical direction, write significant code, and ship the software that runs NetBox across Cloud and Enterprise deployments.

You’ll join early, bringing strong Python, SaaS, and Kubernetes skills, while mentoring teammates and shaping architecture and RFCs. This remote role accepts US-based candidates.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with ownership of a production system or platform area.
• Strong Python skills and production SaaS experience; Django and Postgres preferred.
• Experience building software on Kubernetes (operators/controllers or deployment tooling) with reconciliation loops and custom resources.
• Observability into applications using OpenTelemetry and Sentry.
• Hands-on with delivery stack: AWS, Kubernetes/Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD/FluxCD, Terraform, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience leading engineering work without formal manager authority, including mentoring others.
• Hands-on experience building inside an AI-augmented development harness (Claude Code and related workflows).
• Track record of making technical decisions under ambiguity and driving cross-team migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox, including operators, controllers, internal APIs, and release tooling.
• Contribute to NetBox and core plugins to improve production reliability from startup to Postgres performance.
• Incorporate observability standards and set testing, documentation, and SLO practices for the team.
• Own the technical direction and architecture for NetBox in Cloud and Enterprise, as the lead technical decision maker.
• Lead and mentor engineers, including SREs, through design reviews and code reviews.
• Coordinate with NetBox Core and Cloud/Enterprise teams to define release contracts and drive RFC-driven changes.
• Serve as escalation point during incidents and ensure postmortem actions are completed.

Skills

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

SaaS experience

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Leadership

AI-augmented development

RFC processes

Incident response

Cloud-native

Cloud/AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Helm

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

NetBox Labs seeks a Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in the Applications group. You will set the technical direction, write significant code, and ship the software that runs NetBox across Cloud and Enterprise deployments.

You’ll join early, bringing strong Python, SaaS, and Kubernetes skills, while mentoring teammates and shaping architecture and RFCs. This remote role accepts US-based candidates.