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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** NetBird - **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Network Address Translation, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Networking Basics, Routing, Open Source Technology, Peer-To-Peer (P2P), Remote Access Technology, Prometheus, Pulumi, Computer Networking Systems, Grafana, Backend, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Terraform - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5834812244 ## About the Role We're looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex networking challenges, and cares deeply about building reliable systems for real users. Must-Haves * 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-Haves * 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. * Experience supporting or interacting with developer communities via GitHub or similar platforms. * Experience optimizing infrastructure for cost and performance at scale., We know that happy and supported team members build the best products. That's why we offer ## Description 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. Specifically, you will: * 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. ## Related Videos - [Why segmenting your infrastructure into tiers makes your infrastructure design better](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1960-why-segmenting-your-infrastructure-into-tiers-makes-your-infrastructure-design-better) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [One Platform Could Not Fit Them All](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1919-one-platform-could-not-fit-them-all) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Unleashing Potential Across Teams: The Power of Infrastructure as Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/930-unleashing-potential-across-teams-the-power-of-infrastructure-as-code) ## Related Articles - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Finding Jobs in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/375-finding-jobs-in-germany) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies)