Senior Software Backend Engineer, Foundations

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Responsibilities

• ▹Act as the team's go-to expert for a core area of Foundations, such as identity, authentication or access control
• ▹Design and build backend services for the platform in collaboration with other teams
• ▹Own delivery of complex components within Foundations projects, from design through production
• ▹Break large projects into well-defined milestones and communicate risk and status early
• ▹Investigate and fix tough technical problems the team encounters
• ▹Identify technical debt and risk before it grows into a larger business problem
• ▹Mentor engineers through pairing, code review and design review
• ▹Communicate technical decisions clearly in design docs and team meetings
• ▹Partner with Product and other engineering teams to align technical work with priorities

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of software development experience, including ownership of complex backend systems
• ▹Backend programming experience in Python or Go
• ▹Experience in platform engineering or building common platform components
• ▹A track record of breaking large projects into milestones and delivering on time
• ▹Experience mentoring engineers through code review and design review
• ▹Strong Linux and distributed systems fundamentals
• ▹Comfort working across teams to align technical work with product priorities
• ▹Experience incorporating AI into a development workflow and authoring AI-enhanced tooling

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with authentication and authorization systems (e.g. OAuth, SSO or role-based access control)
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• ▹Experience with network management or infrastructure software (e.g. NetBox)
• ▹Open-source contributions or project involvement

Soft skills

About the company

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. It is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, with products NetBox Enterprise and NetBox Cloud, and of the Orb network observability platform.