Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - NetBox Delivery

The role

You will set the technical direction and write code for NetBox Delivery. You will design software to install, upgrade, and run NetBox on Cloud and Enterprise platforms.

What you will do

• Design and build software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox
• Contribute to NetBox and its core plugins to improve production reliability
• Build observability into the software the team owns
• Set team standards for testing, documentation, and SLOs
• Own technical direction and architecture for NetBox on Cloud and Enterprise
• Lead and mentor the team's engineers through design and code review
• Work with other teams to define release contracts and drive cross-team changes
• Act as a technical escalation point during incidents

Required qualifications

• 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
• Experience building software on top of Kubernetes, such as operators, controllers, or deployment tooling
• 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
• Hands-on experience with 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

Nice to have

• Rust or Go programming experience
• Production experience with Django and Postgres at scale, including schema design, migration risk, and query performance
• Familiarity with the NetBox ecosystem or network automation
• Experience working in a B2B software startup or high-growth organization
• Open source contributions or project involvement
• Experience with self-managed or on-premises delivery
• Container build skills, including base image design and Python dependency management
• Experience with supply chain security, such as vulnerability scanning, image signing and SOC 2 controls for build pipelines

About the company

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. They are the commercial steward of open source NetBox and Orb.