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NetBox Labs is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our rapidly expanding Observability Product team, which owns the full suite of NetBox Labs observability products - from Assurance and Discovery to upcoming Telemetry and Monitoring capabilities - helping customers gain real-time network visibility, automatically discover and monitor their infrastructure, and keep configuration drift in check. This role is focused on our open source Observability Agent (including pktvisor and discovery).
Job Responsibility:
Work with a full stack team to build and maintain open source, source available, and closed source software across our observability project portfolio – shipping to the community and delivering into our commercial cloud and on‑premise products
Integrate closely with NetBox’s data model to drive workflows for reconciling observed vs intended state and enriching telemetry and monitoring data
Define and maintain data schemas and APIs shared across products
Ensure observability systems meet scalability and reliability goals (SLAs/SLOs)
Implement testing, CI/CD automation, and code quality standards across observability services
Requirements:
Deep knowledge of the OSI framework, networks and protocols - esp. DPI, SNMP, sFlow/NetFlow, gNMI
Linux system and network programming experience (e.g. system calls, IPC, processes, threads, sockets)
Experience with C++ (and/or Rust), as well as Go and Python
Experience with eBPF helpful
5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, and 2+ years in a startup environment
Experience in distributed systems and backend microservices development
Strong understanding of gRPC, protobuf, event-driven architecture, and streaming data systems
Experience with Redis streams, Kafka, MQTT, AMQP or other messaging systems
Familiarity with programmatic interaction with network infrastructure via APIs, SSH/CLI automation (e.g., Netmiko, NAPALM), or other network automation frameworks
Familiarity with observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces) and related protocols, especially OpenTelemetry
Strong communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical specifications with diagrams
Familiarity with data visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana
Nice to have:
Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems with security and compliance awareness (e.g., SOC 2)
Familiarity with Mimir, Loki, ClickHouse, Elastic, or other analytical data stores
Familiarity with AI/ML approaches for anomaly detection or performance prediction
Working with or contributing to open source projects, especially in observability