Backend Software Engineer, Change Data Processing & Edge Caching

NetBox Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our rapidly expanding engineering team. This role will partner with a cloud infrastructure specialist to build CDC, event-streaming and edge caching product components. The role requires experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka fundamentals, and designing stable event contracts (including envelope patterns) that can handle high-cardinality, customer-defined schemas.

You'll design and implement backend services for consuming and distributing real time change data information to remote locations and maintaining a local edge cache with a fast, customer facing query API. You'll apply strong production engineering practices around testing, observability, and failure handling to deliver a reliable, scalable pipeline. Responsibilities • Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting NetBox Labs' SaaS and on-premise products • Integrate deeply with NetBox's data model to drive network automation workflows.

• Define and evolve APIs and data schemas shared across products and teams, ensuring consistency and scalability. • Maintain and extend backend services that power the user interface and customer-facing experiences. • Design performant and reliable distributed systems, ensuring correctness and data integrity across components.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate with authentication, authorization, licensing, and billing services. • Contribute to observability and monitoring across services, ensuring visibility through metrics, logs, and traces. • Profile and optimize database queries, API performance, and service-to-service communication.
• Participate in system design reviews, RFC discussions, and architecture working groups to ensure alignment across teams. • Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality standards for backend services. • Operate what you build-participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations to ensure reliability.
• Contribute to technical documentation, specifications, and internal knowledge sharing. • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and architectural discussions. Requirements • Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines, schema registry management, broker configuration and other ETL & data pipeline concepts.
• Experience with coding for Edge Caching and data management for fast query access. • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a startup environment. • Proficiency in Golang and Python, with hands-on experience building distributed systems and backend microservices.
• Strong understanding of gRPC, protobuf, event-driven architecture, and streaming data systems. • Familiarity with observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces) and protocols such as OpenTelemetry. • Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including common protocols and infrastructure components.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear technical specifications and architecture diagrams. Nice to Have • Familiarity with visualization and analytics frameworks such as Grafana. • Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems with security and compliance awareness (e.g., SOC 2).
• Experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes and AWS. • Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor). 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. • We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity • Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly.

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.