Senior Network Engineer- Network Management Security

Why us?

You'll join a company where your work has visible impact from day one.
You'll work directly with world-class engineers, scientists, aerospace experts and entrepreneurs building technologies that have never existed before.
Every day you'll collaborate with people who genuinely believe Europe can lead the next generation of autonomous intelligence.
We're not maintaining legacy systems.
We're creating the infrastructure future generations will depend on.
 
What We Offer

• Competitive compensation 
• Relocation support 
• Individual learning budget
• Modern aerospace campus with an on-site canteen and gym
• Free beverages
• Lunch support
• Tax-free employee benefits
• Flexible working hours 
• Regular remote work
• 30 days of vacation

Join Us
If you're ready to build technology that could shape Europe for decades to come, we'd love to meet you.
 

Your mission

As a Senior Network Engineer focused on network management and security, you will own how nodes, whether airborne, ground-based or orbital, join the swarm, how they are configured and reconfigured over their lifetime, and how they prove their identity and protect their traffic without relying on a centralized authority.

You will build the control plane that distributes configuration and policy across the swarm, the pub/sub and
state-synchronization layer that keeps distributed data eventually consistent across network partitions, and the
zero-trust security model, including decentralized identity, key exchange and certificate lifecycle, that lets nodes
verify and authenticate each other in the field.

Your work is what turns a collection of individually secure nodes into a network that can be configured,
observed and trusted as a whole, even when it is fragmented for hours at a time.

Your profile

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Communications Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in distributed systems, network engineering or security engineering.
• Strong depth in at least one of the following, with working knowledge of the other: distributed systems and middleware (pub/sub, serialization, consensus, state synchronization), or applied security (cryptographic protocols, decentralized identity, key exchange, certificate lifecycle management).
• Advanced proficiency in C, C++ or Rust.
• Experience with Linux and embedded or resource-constrained environments.
• Strong analytical and systems engineering mindset.
• Excellent communication skills in English; German language skills are a plus.

      Nice to Have

• Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) or comparable eventually-consistent data structures
• Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols
• Noise protocol framework or comparable secure channel handshake design
• Hardware-backed security, such as secure boot, HSM or TPM
• Software-defined networking (SDN) controllers and policy engines
• Configuration management protocols and toolchains, such as NETCONF/YANG or gNMI
• Familiarity with IETF, IEEE or NATO STANAG communication standards, particularly in defense or dual-use contexts