Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in building and scaling the infrastructure behind NetBird's global networking platform. You'll ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and performant while enabling engineers to ship quickly and confidently.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code for NetBird's globally distributed management and relay services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reproducible, and safe delivery of backend and client components.
• Own service reliability: implement observability (metrics, logs, tracing), lead incident response, and drive postmortems with actionable improvements.
• Collaborate with backend and networking engineers to optimize routing, connectivity, and overall system performance.
• Build internal tooling and automation to improve developer experience and support NetBird's open source ecosystem.

What you'll need

• 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 - you see problems through from detection to resolution to prevention
• 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.

What they offer

• Competitive base salary and equity incentives
• Hybrid work environment with flexibility between Berlin office and remote
• High level of independence with focus on outcomes
• Growth opportunities at the forefront of Zero Trust security