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NetBox Labs

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

NetBox Labs·19 days ago

⏰ Full-time⭐ Senior💰 $85,000 – $195,000🌎 Americas📅 Sep 28, 2026

NetBox Labs is seeking a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our Observability Team. Observability is a key component of network automation, and critical to our company mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks.

This team is responsible for Network Discovery & Reconciliation, Network Observability & Monitoring, and Agents & Fleet Management. The team delivers both closed and open source software and owns projects such as Orb, Diode and pktvisor.

In this role you will bring:

  • Deep experience with idiomatic Go

  • Experience with protobuf APIs (gRPC and Connect RPC), PostgreSQL (including migrations), Redis, and RabbitMQ

  • Experience with multi-tenant services, OAuth2/OIDC, and event-driven systems, including at-least-once delivery and idempotent consumers

  • Deep knowledge of observability and instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry

  • A solid understanding of networking: devices, configuration, protocols, and layers

  • The ability to use coding agents day to day: set the constraints, review the output, and remain accountable for correctness, security, and tests

  • Great communication skills, including the ability to write technical specifications with diagrams

You will work closely with:

  • Product owners – to bring ideas to life and deliver a compelling user experience

  • The NetBox team – to create the ultimate observability tooling within NetBox

  • The platform team – to ensure seamless integration with NetBox Cloud and Enterprise

  • Community members as users and contributors to the project

It would be fantastic if you have the following experience:

  • 3+ years of experience working in a fast paced startup environment

  • MQTT or other device/IoT protocols, or gNMI

  • Kubernetes in production

  • Django, NetBox, or NetBox plugins

  • Python for tests and tooling

About NetBox Labs:

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.

About NetBox Labs:

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.

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