# Staff Software Backend Engineer, Tech Lead - Foundations

NetBox Labs seeks a Staff Software Backend Engineer to technically lead our Foundations team. Foundations is the platform team that builds shared platform primitives that other engineering teams depend on including core services for authentication, access control, customer secrets management, and customer telemetry. This role will own the technical direction for Foundations. You will partner with the Foundations Engineering Manager, who owns people and process, while you own architecture and technical execution. Responsibilities: Own the architecture of the Platform Authorization Service (PAS), the system that controls access across the platform. Set the technical direction for identity, single sign-on (SSO), access control, secrets management services and more. Lead delivery of Foundations core services, including login, authorization, and tenancy. Act as the primary technical decision maker for Foundations. Lead and mentor the Foundations engineering team through daily technical work. Partner with the Foundations Engineering Manager and Product Manager on team execution. Drive core components through to GA (general availability) launch. Define API contracts for platform se

- **Id**: 1045435
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/netbox-labs-staff-software-backend-engineer-tech-lead-foundations>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T20:56:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T08:32:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3923
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, IT Service & Asset Management

## Company

- **Id**: 4281
- **Name**: NetBox Labs
- **Domain**: netboxlabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/netbox-labs>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 143000
- **Max usd**: 274000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 285

## Technologies

- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T21:37:11Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-21T15:04:16Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-21T19:01:03Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 50
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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