Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers building core components of NetBird's global networking platform. You'll be responsible for delivering impactful outcomes while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. This role blends execution, people leadership, and technical guidance.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, supporting their development through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations.
• Own team delivery by translating product and technical goals into execution plans and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.
• Partner closely with the CTO and engineering to define priorities and align on roadmap and scope.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the reliability and performance of your team's systems, driving best practices in testing, observability, and incident response.
• Provide technical guidance and context, enabling the team to make sound architectural and implementation decisions.

What you'll need

• 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

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

What they offer

• Competitive compensation including salary and equity
• Hybrid work model in Berlin office with flexibility for remote days
• High-impact role working directly with customers and product teams
• Autonomy and ownership over solutions and customer success
• Career growth as NetBird scales its technical function