Senior Software Backend Engineer, Foundations

About the role

NetBox Labs is looking for a Senior Software Backend Engineer to join the Foundations team, which builds core services for identity, authentication, and access control. You will own the delivery of complex components and serve as a technical expert for the platform. The role involves collaborating with other engineering teams to build shared platform primitives and ensuring the reliability of core services.

Responsibilities

• Act as the team's go-to expert for a core area of Foundations, such as identity, authentication, or access control.
• Design and build backend services for the platform in collaboration with other teams.
• Own delivery of complex components within Foundations projects, from design through production.
• Break large projects into well-defined milestones.
• Communicate risk and status early.
• Investigate and fix tough technical problems the team encounters.
• Identify technical debt and risk before it grows into a larger business problem.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and design review.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly in design docs and team meetings.
• Partner with Product and other engineering teams to align technical work with priorities.

Required skills

• Backend development
• Python
• Go
• Platform Engineering
• Linux
• Distributed systems
• AI-enhanced tooling

Nice to have

• OAuth
• SSO
• Role-based access control
• Kubernetes
• Container orchestration
• Network management
• Infrastructure software
• NetBox
• Open-source contribution

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience, including ownership of complex backend systems

About the Company

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks by delivering open, composable products. They are the commercial steward of open source NetBox and Orb, and are backed by investors including Notable Capital, Grafana Labs, IBM, and Salesforce Ventures.