Senior Software Engineer

In this role you will:

• Design, architect, and implement Kubernetes-based, high-availability (HA) on-premises solutions, including control plane applications, telemetry systems, air-gapped installations, and appliance offerings

• Extend and maintain our Kubernetes operator, the core of how NetBox Enterprise installs, upgrades, and heals itself in customer environments

• Develop and maintain our operational management console and associated tools, ensuring a seamless user experience for lifecycle management

• Architect and implement robust multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and complementary DevOps technologies

• Drive releases on our six-week cadence, four weeks of build followed by two weeks of stabilization, including versioning strategy and structured release management

• Write Rust and Python across the stack, from operator internals to internal tooling and APIs

• Build internal tooling and APIs to facilitate integration testing by upstream application teams, validating changes ahead of inclusion in on-premises releases

• Develop comprehensive documentation and establish best practice guidelines for deployments

• Take a weekly turn as Engineering Guardian, fielding questions and escalations from across the organization and working directly with Customer Success and customers to diagnose and resolve deployment and operational issues

Requirements:

• 5+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, with proven experience writing robust, maintainable code

• Demonstrated expertise with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and deployment automation, including complex multi-cluster and multi-region deployments

• Hands-on experience building inside an AI-augmented development harness, including Claude Code and the workflows that make agentic tooling reliable

• Strong Python skills for tooling, APIs, and automation

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions), GitOps delivery (ArgoCD or FluxCD), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, including system administration, troubleshooting, and networking

• Solid understanding of software supply chain security, including vulnerability scanning and CVE management, with tools such as Trivy, Dependabot, and GitHub code scanning

• Comfort working directly with customers to diagnose deployment and operational issues

Nice to Haves:

• Rust or Golang programming experience.

• Experience with virtual appliances and air-gapped installations

• Experience deploying applications using Replicated

• Familiarity with networking concepts or distributed system architecture

• 3+ years of experience in a B2B software startup or high-growth organization

• Open-source contributions or project involvement

Join us at NetBox Labs to shape the future of on-premise infrastructure intelligence and innovation.