Technical Product Owner

The role

You will act as the link between users and the engineering team for the core NetBird platform, dashboard, API, and self-hosted setup. You will manage the backlog, translate customer feedback into technical tasks, and plan engineering cycles.

What you will do

• Own the day-to-day backlog in Linear
• Triage incoming issues and write clear tickets with context and acceptance criteria
• Build a system for collecting feedback from customers, GitHub, community, support, and sales
• Talk to users and customers directly to understand their setups and problems
• Plan regular cycles with engineering and break features into shippable pieces
• Keep the company updated on releases through notes, changelogs, and updates
• Close the loop with people who provided feedback
• Spot patterns across feedback for roadmap discussions

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similar role at a (technical) B2B SaaS, infrastructure, or developer tools company
• A technical background
• Comfortable reading API docs and following GitHub discussions
• Understanding of networking basics like IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and VPNs
• Hands-on experience running a backlog in Linear, Jira, or similar
• Experience working directly with customers or users and turning feedback into prioritized work
• Good judgment on priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Work AI native using AI tools and coding agents every day
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving team

Nice to have

• Experience with networking, security, or zero trust products
• Experience with open source projects or developer communities
• Experience building CLI products
• Hands-on experience with self-hosting, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure
• Some coding experience to read a PR or reproduce a bug
• Experience using product analytics to back up decisions

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity incentives
• Hybrid work environment
• Real product ownership
• Open source impact
• Growth opportunities

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing a zero-trust network security platform. They use an open-source, community-driven approach to connect remote employees and infrastructure.