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NetBox Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our rapidly expanding engineering team. We have multiple openings at different seniority levels across several teams. A Backend Engineer at NetBox Labs builds the core systems and services that power our products—designing reliable APIs, data models, and distributed systems that scale. They focus on creating robust, maintainable software with clean abstractions and strong boundaries, enabling other teams to move quickly and confidently. While their primary expertise is backend development, they understand how their work connects to the broader product experience, collaborating closely with platform and product teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving complex systems problems, and takes pride in building elegant, resilient software that forms the backbone of modern network and infrastructure automation.
Job Responsibility:
Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs’ SaaS and on-premise products, including open-source, source-available, and commercial offerings
Integrate deeply with NetBox’s data model to drive network automation workflows
Define and evolve APIs and data schemas shared across products and teams, ensuring consistency and scalability
Maintain and extend backend services that power the user interface and customer-facing experiences
Design performant and reliable distributed systems, ensuring correctness and data integrity across components
Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate with authentication, authorization, licensing, and billing services
Contribute to observability and monitoring across services, ensuring visibility through metrics, logs, and traces
Profile and optimize database queries, API performance, and service-to-service communication
Participate in system design reviews, RFC discussions, and architecture working groups to ensure alignment across teams
Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality standards for backend services
Operate what you build—participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations to ensure reliability
Work with Product and UX teams to design intuitive user workflows and data visualizations
Contribute to technical documentation, specifications, and internal knowledge sharing
Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and architectural discussions
Requirements:
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a startup environment
Proficiency in Golang and Python, with hands-on experience building distributed systems and backend microservices
Strong understanding of gRPC, protobuf, event-driven architecture, and streaming data systems
Experience with Redis Streams, Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, or similar messaging systems
Familiarity with observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces) and protocols such as OpenTelemetry
Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including common protocols and infrastructure components
Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear technical specifications and architecture diagrams
Familiarity with visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana
Nice to have:
Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC)
Experience with scaling large, multi-tenant observability systems including ingest, analysis and alerting
Experience with SNMP, sFlow/NetFlow, gNMI and similar telemetry technologies
Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems with security and compliance awareness (e.g., SOC 2)
Experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes and AWS
Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor)