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NetBird | Berlin, Germany (or remote, CET/CEST

NetBird · Remote · back to the listing

HR standards

49/100

poor

Title ↔ description

63/100

needs work

Reads as

Engineering Manager

96% confident

What this role officially is

software manager — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software managers oversee the acquisition and development of software systems in order to provide support to all organisational units. They also monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organisation.

Also known as: applications manager, software managers, ICT applications manager, software applications manager, soft manager

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

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overlap)| Full-time

https://netbird.io/careers
NetBird is open source networking and access control WireGuard-based
overlay networks with zero-config peer-to-peer connectivity. Open source, built
in Europe, used by thousands of teams worldwide. We're a small and growing team going up against the incumbents in network security. Post Series A.
- Engineering Manager : You will take a huge part in leading and scaling our engineering org. Unblocking, scaling, hiring, you'll still read code and hold technical opinions that impact the product. We're not looking for a pure people manager. Networking/infra background is a plus, not a filter. If you've scaled a team from 0 to 20+ and seen your product scale too, I'd love to talk to you.
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) : the control plane: peer
coordination, policy and access control, multi-tenancy, and keeping it
all fast as customer networks grow into the hundreds of thousands of peers.
- Network / Client Engineer (Golang) — the agent side: WireGuard,
NAT traversal and hole punching, relays, DNS, and shipping one client
across Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. If you enjoy debugging
why one connection out of a thousand won't go peer-to-peer, this is
the role.
- Solutions Engineer — technical, customer-facing, pre/post-sales. You'll
be the person who architects a rollout for a 500-person company's
network live on a call, and a great channel back into the roadmap.
We have an office in Berlin and mostly work CET/CEST. We'd love to have you
in the office with us, but if your experience is stellar we're happy to hire
remote. We're scaling quickly, so this is a chance to join early and scale your career as well as with the company.
Apply at https://netbird.io/careers, please mention you found us on Hacker
News in your application.

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 61 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.