Software Engineer (Backend)

The role

You will design, build, and scale high-throughput backend services and APIs in Go for an open source, peer-to-peer networking platform. You will own data modeling, database performance, and end-to-end feature ownership.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale high-throughput backend services and APIs in Go
• Own data modeling and database performance optimization
• Implement observability best practices
• Contribute to incident response and postmortems
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from design to iteration
• Collaborate with networking and platform engineers
• Engage with the open source community

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in Go or similar systems languages
• Proven experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems
• Strong in data modeling and database performance optimization
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (IP, routing, auth protocols like OAuth2/OIDC)
• End-to-end ownership mindset
• Thrives in high-autonomy, fast-paced environments
• Experience in startup or scale-up environments

Nice to have

• Experience with WireGuard, VPNs, or peer-to-peer networking technologies (STUN, TURN, ICE, NAT traversal)
• Background in security-focused systems or networking products
• Experience with gRPC and REST-based APIs
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
• Open source contributions, especially in Go or networking/infrastructure projects

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation package including a competitive salary and equity incentives
• Exceptional growth opportunity
• Meaningful ownership & space to build an extraordinary product
• Intense and energizing atmosphere in our Berlin office (4 days office / 1 day flexible)
• An outstanding team

About the company

NetBird is a rapidly growing company at the forefront of the Zero Trust security revolution that builds an open source, peer-to-peer networking platform.