Senior Observability Engineer - Go & OpenTelemetry

NetBox Labs, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NetBox Labs is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observability Team, bringing 5+ years of experience in Go and systems programming. You will work on network discovery, reconciliation, observability, and fleet management while contributing to both closed and open source software such as Orb and pktvisor.

You will collaborate with product owners, NetBox teams, and the broader community to deliver robust, secure, and well-documented components that scale with NetBox Cloud and Enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with idiomatic Go.
• Experience with protobuf APIs (gRPC and Connect RPC), PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with multi-tenant services, OAuth2/OIDC, and event-driven systems.
• Deep knowledge of observability and instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry.
• Solid networking knowledge: devices, configuration, protocols, and layers.
• Ability to write technical specifications with diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain observability tooling and services in Go.
• Collaborate with product owners, NetBox team, and platform teams.
• Ensure correctness, security, and tests across modules.
• Contribute to open source projects like Orb, Diode, pktvisor.

Skills

Go

protobuf APIs

gRPC/Connect RPC

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

OAuth2/OIDC

OpenTelemetry

Networking knowledge

Technical documentation

Tools

Django

NetBox

NetBox plugins

Python

Job description

NetBox Labs is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observability Team, bringing 5+ years of experience in Go and systems programming. You will work on network discovery, reconciliation, observability, and fleet management while contributing to both closed and open source software such as Orb and pktvisor.

You will collaborate with product owners, NetBox teams, and the broader community to deliver robust, secure, and well-documented components that scale with NetBox Cloud and Enterprise.