NetBox Labs

Principal Engineer

NetBox Labs

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $220,000 - $265,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoDockerGoGrafanaGRPCKubernetesMicroservicesOpen SourcePostgresPrometheusPythonRedisTerraform

About the role

  • Help establish architectural foundations and leverage for an expansive product vision
  • Serve as a senior engineering leader, collaborating with stakeholders to shape the long-term technical direction of our SaaS, on-prem, and open source products.
  • Partner with engineering leadership and product managers to evolve the technical roadmap across multiple product areas.
  • Facilitate and lead architectural SIGs, driving alignment on key design decisions.
  • Guide foundational system design in collaboration with platform, observability, and core product teams.
  • Drive architectural thinking in emerging areas including AI and internal data platform strategy.
  • Influence engineering culture through design reviews, mentorship, and technical guidance.
  • Our stack: Core: Python, Django, Go, gRPC, microservices/serverless, event driven architecture
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, CDC, message brokers
  • Infra: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Terraform
  • Our culture and values: We own and solve problems with high attention to detail. Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win.
  • About NetBox Labs: 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.

Requirements

  • Prior experience working in a high-growth startup environment, with the ability to thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous settings.
  • 10+ years of experience building and designing distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience with application and information security practices and standards, especially OWASP, NIST, and SOC 2 compliance frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Python (including Django) and/or Go; ability to work across multiple tech stacks.
  • Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Experience leading cross-functional architecture efforts and influencing technical direction across teams.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Prior experience mentoring senior engineers and leading design discussions.
  • Experience with AI tools (e.g. Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor)