Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

NetBox Labs seeks a Senior Software Engineer with strong DevOps experience to build and drive NetBox Enterprise, our on-premises product suite. You'll own installation, configuration, and lifecycle management for our customers, tackle complex technical challenges, proactively address deployment issues unique to on-prem environments, and collaborate closely with high-performing, cross-functional teams.

In this role you will:

• Design, architect, and implement Kubernetes-based, high-availability (HA) on-premises solutions, including control plane applications, telemetry systems, air-gapped installations, and appliance offerings.
• Extend and maintain our Kubernetes operator, the core of how NetBox Enterprise installs, upgrades, and heals itself in customer environments.
• Develop and maintain our operational management console and associated tools, ensuring a seamless user experience for lifecycle management.
• Architect and implement robust multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and complementary DevOps technologies.
• Drive releases on our six-week cadence, four weeks of build followed by two weeks of stabilization, including versioning strategy and structured release management.
• Write Rust and Python across the stack, from operator internals to internal tooling and APIs.
• Build internal tooling and APIs to facilitate integration testing by upstream application teams, validating changes ahead of inclusion in on-premises releases.
• Develop comprehensive documentation and establish best practice guidelines for deployments.
• Take a weekly turn as Engineering Guardian, fielding questions and escalations from across the organization and working directly with Customer Success and customers to diagnose and resolve deployment and operational issues.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, with proven experience writing robust, maintainable code.
• Demonstrated expertise with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and deployment automation, including complex multi-cluster and multi-region deployments.
• Hands-on experience building inside an AI-augmented development harness, including Claude Code and the workflows that make agentic tooling reliable.
• Strong Python skills for tooling, APIs, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions), GitOps delivery (ArgoCD or FluxCD), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, including system administration, troubleshooting, and networking.
• Solid understanding of software supply chain security, including vulnerability scanning and CVE management, with tools such as Trivy, Dependabot, and GitHub code scanning.
• Comfort working directly with customers to diagnose deployment and operational issues.

Requirements

• Rust or Golang programming experience.
• Experience with virtual appliances and air-gapped installations.
• Experience deploying applications using Replicated.
• Familiarity with networking concepts or distributed system architecture.
• 3+ years of experience in a B2B software startup or high-growth organization.
• Open-source contributions or project involvement.

Benefits

• Join us at NetBox Labs to shape the future of on-premise infrastructure intelligence and innovation.

Company Description

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.