Staff Software Engineer – Tech Lead

NetBox Labs

Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead designing and maintaining backend systems for NetBox Labs. Driving technical direction and mentoring engineers to ensure high quality deliverables.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $215,000 - $262,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringbackend systemsGoKubernetesobservability systemstelemetry systemsdistributed systemsmodular designtechnical designAI-assisted development

Soft Skills

mentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationtechnical coachingproblem-solvingleadershipdocumentationrisk managementteam alignmentfeedback