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# Open Source Engineer

- **Company:** NetBird
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Unit Testing, Distributed Systems, Github, Open Source Technology, Zero Trust Network Access, TypeScript, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5834801961

## About the Role

We're looking for an Open Source Engineer who combines deep technical leadership with a passion for open-source collaboration.
Must-Haves

 * 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with strong full-stack capabilities.
 * Experience building, maintaining, or leading open-source projects.
 * Proven experience leading technical initiatives.
 * Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures.
 * Experience with frontend technologies and developer-facing UIs.
 * Ability to make and communicate architectural and technical decisions.
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
 * Experience with Go, TypeScript, React, or similar modern stacks.
 * Strong experience with unit and integration testing principles.
 * A community-first mindset and belief in open development.

Nice-to-Haves

 * Familiarity with networking, security, or Zero Trust architectures.
 * Experience managing roadmaps and technical direction.
 * Public GitHub profile with meaningful contributions.
 * Experience growing developer communities.

## Description

* Work across the stack to improve self-hosting, local deployments and community-driven use cases.
 * Pick up ideas directly from GitHub issues, discussions, and community feedback and turn them into working code.
 * Improve developer experience, docs, examples and setup flows for OSS users.
 * Review and collaborate on community pull requests as a peer, not a gatekeeper.
 * Maintain and improve tooling around local dev, Docker, Kubernetes, and self-hosted environments.
 * Experiment with new ideas, integrations, and workflows that make NetBird easier to hack on.
 * Help keep NetBird approachable, hackable, and fun for contributors.


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