Software Engineer
US$110,000 – US$240,000 / yr base salary
Posted 9 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - NetBox Delivery”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$110,000 – US$240,000 / yr |
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NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for NetBox Delivery, a new team in our Applications group.
NetBox is a product that reaches people in a few ways: our open source community runs NetBox OSS; commercial customers use NetBox Cloud (SaaS) or NetBox Enterprise (self-managed). NetBox Delivery owns everything between a NetBox Core release and a healthy, running instance on Cloud and Enterprise. We work closely with NetBox Core, the team that builds NetBox and its core plugins. We ship the software, keep an eye on it in production, and when something breaks, we fix it at the source rather than working around it.
As Tech Lead, you set the technical direction for NetBox Delivery and write much of its code. You bring strong software engineering skills, SaaS experience, and hands-on DevOps and Kubernetes skills. You will be one of the first engineers on this team and help shape how it works.
In this role you will:
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Design and build the software that installs, upgrades, and runs NetBox, such as Kubernetes operators, controllers, internal APIs, and release tooling
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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
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Build observability into the software the team owns, and set the team's standards for testing, documentation, and SLOs
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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
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Lead and mentor the team's engineers, including its SRE, through design and code review
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Work with NetBox Core and the Cloud, Enterprise, and Foundations teams to define release contracts and drive cross-team changes through RFCs
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Act as a technical escalation point during incidents and make sure postmortem actions get done
Requirements:
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7+ years of software development experience, including technical ownership of a production system or platform area
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Strong Python skills and experience with production SaaS applications; Django and Postgres preferred
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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