Platform Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code for NetBird's management and relay services. You will also develop CI/CD pipelines, own service reliability, and build internal tooling to support the open source ecosystem.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Implement observability including metrics, logs, and tracing
• Lead incident response and drive postmortems
• Collaborate with backend and networking engineers to optimize routing and performance
• Build internal tooling and automation

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
• Strong experience operating production systems on AWS, GCP, or similar
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and Kubernetes
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid networking fundamentals (IP, routing, NAT, DNS)
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and production incident response
• Strong sense of ownership
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and comfortable working independently

Nice to have

• Experience working with WireGuard or VPN technologies
• Familiarity with peer-to-peer networking and NAT traversal techniques (e.g., STUN, TURN, ICE)
• Experience operating globally distributed systems with low-latency requirements
• Experience with gRPC and REST-based services
• Background in security best practices for networked systems
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience supporting or interacting with developer communities via GitHub or similar platforms
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for cost and performance at scale

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity incentives
• Hybrid work environment
• High level of independence

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. The team is from Germany and aims to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.