Tech Lead & Staff Engineer: SaaS Platform & Kubernetes

NetBox Labs, Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in our Applications group. You will set the technical direction, write much of the code, and partner with NetBox Core and Cloud/Enterprise teams to shape the platform.

We value deep SaaS experience, strong Python skills (Django and Postgres preferred), hands-on Kubernetes, observability, and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives from RFCs to production.

Formación

• 7+ years of software development experience, including technical ownership of a production system or platform area.
• Strong Python skills and experience with production SaaS applications; Django and Postgres preferred.
• Experience building software on top of Kubernetes, such as operators, controllers, or deployment tooling, with a solid understanding of reconciliation loops, custom resources, and the Kubernetes API
• Experience building observability into applications, including error reporting, distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging, with tools such as OpenTelemetry and Sentry
• Hands-on experience with several tools in our delivery stack: AWS, Kubernetes and Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or FluxCD, Terraform, and Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience leading engineering work without formal manager authority, including mentoring other engineers
• Hands-on experience building inside an AI-augmented development harness, including Claude Code and the workflows that make agentic tooling reliable
• A track record of making technical decisions under ambiguity and driving work across team boundaries, from writing the RFC to getting a cross-team migration done

Responsabilidades

• Design and build the software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox, such as Kubernetes operators, controllers, internal APIs, and release tooling
• Contribute to NetBox and its core plugins, in collaboration with NetBox Core, to make them faster and more reliable in production, from application startup to Postgres query performance
• Build observability into the software the team owns, and set the team's standards for testing, documentation, and SLOs
• Own the technical direction and architecture for how NetBox is built, released, and run on Cloud and Enterprise, as the team's primary technical decision maker
• Lead and mentor the team's engineers, including its SRE, through design and code review
• Work with NetBox Core and the Cloud, Enterprise, and Foundations teams to define release contracts and drive cross-team changes through RFCs
• Act as a technical escalation point during incidents and make sure postmortem actions get done

Conocimientos

Python

DevOps mindset

Leadership without authority

SaaS experience

Herramientas

Kubernetes

AWS

Helm

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Claude Code

Descripción del empleo

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in our Applications group. You will set the technical direction, write much of the code, and partner with NetBox Core and Cloud/Enterprise teams to shape the platform.

We value deep SaaS experience, strong Python skills (Django and Postgres preferred), hands-on Kubernetes, observability, and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives from RFCs to production.