Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop scalable cloud infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating closely with engineers to ensure the reliability and security of the systems.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- 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.
- This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, networking, and backend systems.
- You'll work closely with engineering teams to design and operate the platform that powers secure, peer-to-peer connectivity for users around the world.
- 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.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and Kubernetes.
- Solid networking fundamentals (IP, routing, NAT, DNS).
- Strong sense of ownership - you see problems through from detection to resolution to prevention.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and comfortable working independently.
- Familiarity with peer-to-peer networking and NAT traversal techniques (e.g., STUN, TURN, ICE).
- Background in security best practices for networked systems.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
Experience
- 5+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
- Starke Erfahrung im Betrieb von Produktionssystemen auf AWS, GCP oder ähnlichen Plattformen.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and production incident response.
- Experience working with WireGuard or VPN technologies.
- Experience operating globally distributed systems with low-latency requirements.
- Experience with gRPC and REST-based services.
- Experience supporting or interacting with developer communities via GitHub or similar platforms.
- Experience optimizing infrastructure for cost and performance at scale.
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What we offer
- Receive a competitive base salary and equity incentives.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working both from our centrally located Berlin office and remotely.
- Join a team that values fast, clean shipping and works together to achieve great results.
- This is not a strict 9-to-6 role. We focus on outcomes, not the appearance of work.
- Be part of a rapidly growing company at the forefront of the Zero Trust security revolution.
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NetBird
NetBird GmbH is a software company based in Berlin that focuses on innovative network security. Their platform provides a user-friendly solution that replaces traditional VPN methods with WireGuard and peer-to-peer technology. The company targets teams of all sizes with the aim of making secure private networks simpler and more accessible.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Platform Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
