Senior Software Engineer, Observability
NetBox Labs·19 days ago
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.
Market context
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