Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead and grow a team of engineers building core components of NetBird's global networking platform. The role blends execution, people leadership, and technical guidance.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of engineers through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations
• Own team delivery by translating product and technical goals into execution plans
• Partner with the CTO and engineering to define priorities and align on roadmap and scope
• Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Ensure reliability and performance of systems through testing, observability, and incident response
• Provide technical guidance and context for architectural and implementation decisions

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with recent experience in a senior or leadership role
• Proven experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and performance management in a fast-paced environment
• Strong project ownership: experience planning, prioritizing, and delivering projects in a fast-moving environment
• Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and drive them to completion
• Hands-on experience with system design, performance, and reliability
• Strong sense of ownership - you take responsibility from idea to production and beyond
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
• Comfortable staying hands-on while leading others
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams in a scaling environment

Nice to have

• Experience working with Go or similar backend languages
• Experience working on networking products, VPNs, or peer-to-peer systems
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (IP, routing, NAT, DNS)
• Experience leading incident response and communicating with stakeholders during outages
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects
• Experience interacting with developer communities via GitHub or similar platforms

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary and equity
• Hybrid Cowork model in our new Berlin office with flexibility for remote days
• High-impact role working directly with customers and product teams
• Autonomy and ownership over your solutions and customer success
• Close collaboration with Sales, Engineering, Product, and Support
• Career growth as NetBird scales its technical customer function

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. They are a team from Germany with the vision to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.