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Backend Software Engineer, Observability Product
NetBox Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaGRPCKafkaMicroservicesOpen SourceRedis
About the role
- Work with a full stack team to build and maintain open source, source available, and closed source software across our observability project portfolio – shipping to the community and delivering into our commercial cloud and on‑premise products.
- Integrate closely with NetBox’s data model to drive workflows for reconciling observed vs intended state and enriching telemetry and monitoring data.
- Define and maintain data schemas and APIs shared across products.
- Ensure observability systems meet scalability and reliability goals (SLAs/SLOs).
- Implement testing, CI/CD automation, and code quality standards across observability services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- 2+ years in a startup environment
- Experience in distributed systems and backend microservices development
- Strong understanding of gRPC, protobuf, event-driven architecture, and streaming data systems
- Experience with Redis streams, Kafka, MQTT, AMQP or other messaging systems
- Familiarity with programmatic interaction with network infrastructure via APIs, SSH/CLI automation (e.g., Netmiko, NAPALM), or other network automation frameworks
- Familiarity with observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces) and related protocols, especially OpenTelemetry
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical specifications with diagrams
- Familiarity with data visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringdistributed systemsbackend microservices developmentgRPCprotobufevent-driven architecturestreaming data systemsRedis streamsKafkaOpenTelemetry
Soft skills
strong communication skillstechnical specifications writing
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