Software Engineer, Observability

Software Engineer, Observability

NetBox Labs is seeking a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our Observability Team. Observability is a key component of network automation, and critical to our company mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks.

This team is responsible for Network Discovery & Reconciliation, Network Observability & Monitoring, and Agents & Fleet Management. The team delivers both closed and open source software and owns projects such as Orb, Diode and pktvisor.

In this role you will bring:

• Deep experience with idiomatic Golang

• Experience with Python, Docker, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis

• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and event driven architecture

• Deep knowledge of observability, monitoring and instrumentation

• Solid understanding of networking and related concepts such as devices and device configurations, networking protocols and layers

• Great communication skills, including the ability to write technical specifications with diagrams

You will work closely with:

• Product owners – to bring ideas to life and deliver a compelling user experience

• The NetBox team – to create the ultimate observability tooling within NetBox

• The platform team – to ensure seamless integration with NetBox Cloud and Enterprise

• Community members as users and contributors to the project

It would be fantastic if you have the following experience:

• 3+ years of experience working in a fast paced startup environment

• OpenTelemetry, gNMI

• MQTT or IoT experience

• Django, NetBox and NetBox plugins

Comp and benefits:

• Competitive compensation package

• Meaningful, early employee Series A equity

• Top of market medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401k employer contribution, regardless of employee contribution

• Flexible, unlimited PTO

• Generous parental leave

• Choice of tech – choose your laptop when you join

• Global team offsites

Our culture and values:

• We own and solve problems with an innovative mindset and high attention to detail. We are always striving for improvements in our platform and methodologies.

• We put our community first and support our colleagues by sharing our knowledge and providing constructive feedback.

• We value simplicity and focus and think twice before adding complexity.

• Given we are a remote-first team located all over the world, we value strong communication skills and an open, transparent culture. We use Google Apps, Slack, Zoom and Notion to collaborate in real time and work asynchronously. We also get together during the year at company events, plus at industry conferences, and meetups.

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.

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.