Backend Software Engineer, Change Data Processing & Edge Caching
About The Position
NetBox Labs is seeking a Backend Enginee r to join our rapidly expanding engineering team. This role will partner with a cloud infrastructure specialist to build CDC, event-streaming and edge caching product components. The role requires experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka fundamentals, and designing stable event contracts (including envelope patterns) that can handle high-cardinality, customer-defined schemas. You’ll design and implement backend services for consuming and distributing real time change data information to remote locations and maintaining a local edge cache with a fast, customer facing query API. You’ll apply strong production engineering practices around testing, observability, and failure handling to deliver a reliable, scalable pipeline.
Requirements
- Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines, schema registry management, broker configuration and other ETL & data pipeline concepts.
- Experience with coding for Edge Caching and data management for fast query access.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana.
- 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).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs’ SaaS and on-premise products
- 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.
- Contribute to technical documentation, specifications, and internal knowledge sharing.
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and architectural discussions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
