Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead

NetBox Labs

6h

About The Position

NetBox Labs is seeking a Staff Engineer or Tech Lead to join our engineering team in a technical leadership capacity. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an engineer who excels at both building great software and elevating the teams around them. A Staff Engineer or Tech Lead at NetBox Labs should bring strong technical judgment and a collaborative mindset to shape how we design and evolve our systems. They write code, lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and bridge the gap between execution and long-term technical coherence, without losing sight of what needs to ship. This role is ideal for someone seeking to have a large impact on a critical product, who thrives in the intersection of hands-on engineering and cross-team influence, and who finds energy in helping other engineers do their best work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Proven ability to decompose large, ambiguous projects into concrete plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and ownership.
• Demonstrated success in a tech lead capacity, owning technical design for complex systems and clarifying dependencies on other engineering teams.
• Proficiency in using AI-assisted development and software lifecycle tooling, and excited about the transition to AI native product development
• Strong software architecture fundamentals: domain boundaries, modular design, decoupled interfaces, and an understanding of how these choices compound over time.
• Experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes in public clouds and on-prem infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Go, with experience building reliable backend services and distributed systems.
• Experience building or owning observability and telemetry systems: instrumentation, metrics pipelines, distributed tracing, and alerting at scale.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of working closely with Product Managers to align technical execution with roadmap priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas to engineers, product managers, and leadership alike.
• A track record of mentoring and growing engineers: through thoughtful feedback, pairing, and leading by example.

Nice To Haves

• Deep familiarity with observability tooling and protocols: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Mimir/Loki/Grafana (or similar) and experience operating these systems in production at scale.
• Experience with event-driven or streaming system architectures.
• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems with security and compliance awareness (e.g., SOC 2).
• Familiarity with networking devices and infrastructure, network automation, and standard network protocols.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction across our Observability team, ensuring alignment between product goals, system design, and engineering execution.
• Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs' SaaS and on-premise products, including open-source, source-available, and commercial offerings.
• Guide how teams structure technical domains, define clear service boundaries, and evolve contracts and interfaces over time.
• Collaborate with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure backend systems integrate cohesively across authentication, authorization, billing, and data layers.
• Mentor engineers across teams through code reviews, design sessions, and ongoing technical coaching; driving good outcomes within their domains, not just your own.
• Operate what you build: participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations to ensure reliability.
• Partner with product managers and engineering directors to translate roadmap goals into well-scoped engineering plans: breaking large initiatives into phases, surfacing risks early, and keeping technical and product timelines in sync.
• Contribute to technical documentation, internal knowledge sharing, and raising the overall engineering bar.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed