Senior Software Engineer, Observability

NetBox Labs, Inc.; United States; On-site; 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 with 5+ years of experience to join our Observability Team. Observability is a key component of network automation, and critical to our company mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks. This team is responsible for Network Discovery & Reconciliation, Network Observability & Monitoring, and Agents & Fleet Management. The team delivers both closed and open source software and owns projects such as Orb, Diode and pktvisor.

In this role you will bring

• Deep experience with idiomatic Go
• Experience with protobuf APIs (gRPC and Connect RPC), PostgreSQL (including migrations), Redis, and RabbitMQ
• Experience with multi-tenant services, OAuth2/OIDC, and event-driven systems, including at-least-once delivery and idempotent consumers
• Deep knowledge of observability and instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry
• A solid understanding of networking: devices, configuration, protocols, and layers
• The ability to use coding agents day to day: set the constraints, review the output, and remain accountable for correctness, security, and tests
• Great communication skills, including the ability to write technical specifications with diagrams

You will work closely with

• Product owners – to bring ideas to life and deliver a compelling user experience
• The NetBox team – to create the ultimate observability tooling within NetBox
• The platform team – to ensure seamless integration with NetBox Cloud and Enterprise
• Community members as users and contributors to the project

It would be fantastic if you have the following experience

• 3+ years of experience working in a fast paced startup environment
• MQTT or other device/IoT protocols, or gNMI
• Kubernetes in production
• Django, NetBox, or NetBox plugins
• Python for tests and tooling

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 world’s 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.

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.

NetBox Labs is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better software, and we welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, and veteran status. If you need accommodation at any point in the process, just let us know.