Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead, SaaS & Kubernetes

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team within our Applications group. You will set technical direction, write substantial code, and help shape how NetBox Delivery runs across Cloud and Enterprise.

You will own the architecture for deployment tooling, observability, and release processes while mentoring engineers and collaborating with NetBox Core and other teams to deliver fast, reliable software in production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with production systems or platforms.
• Strong Python skills and production SaaS experience; Django and Postgres preferred.
• Experience building on Kubernetes, operators, controllers, and deployment tooling; understanding of reconciliation loops and CRs.
• Observability-focused development with error reporting and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Sentry).
• Proficiency with delivery stack: AWS, Kubernetes & Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or FluxCD, Terraform, Prometheus & Grafana.
• Experience leading engineering work without formal manager authority and mentoring others.
• Experience with AI-augmented development harness and RFC-driven cross-team migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox, including Kubernetes operators and internal APIs.
• Contribute to NetBox core and plugins to improve production reliability and performance.
• Build observability into the team’s software and set testing, documentation, and SLO standards.
• Own technical direction and architecture for NetBox on Cloud and Enterprise, as primary technical decision maker.
• Lead and mentor engineers, including SRE, through design and code reviews.
• Collaborate to define release contracts and drive cross-team RFC-driven changes.
• Serve as a technical escalation point during incidents and drive postmortems actions.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Ambiguity decision making

Mentoring

RFC writing

Python

SaaS experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Django

Postgres

AWS

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD/FluxCD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Job description

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team within our Applications group. You will set technical direction, write substantial code, and help shape how NetBox Delivery runs across Cloud and Enterprise.

You will own the architecture for deployment tooling, observability, and release processes while mentoring engineers and collaborating with NetBox Core and other teams to deliver fast, reliable software in production.