Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Domain within the Scalability Team. The role focuses on owning reliability for container platforms and building systems that keep the bank online and fast. You will mentor teammates while expanding your cloud knowledge on a daily basis.

The mission of Platform Engineering is to provide trusted, performant, self-service platforms that empower product teams to build "the bank the world loves to use." Scalability's part of this mission is to develop solutions for container orchestration. As one of the first banks completely hosted in the cloud, our security, resilience and productivity standards require not only the use of a modern technology stack, but the building of teams in line with our principles and in the service of our product teams, the company and our customers.

What you will do

Design, develop, implement and own products and solutions to improve the security, reliability, and scalability of N26 cloud infrastructure and systems in the workload orchestration domain. Work with Product, customers and stakeholders to understand their needs and build the right products and solutions. Take an active part in the strategy and roadmap definition and prioritisation. Mentor and support other team members and also learn from them. Expand and develop your cloud knowledge, skills, and technology expertise.

Design cloud infrastructure for security and scale. Hosting solutions evolve through defined workflow stages. Map requirements with engineers before writing deployment code. Guide colleagues through complex incidents while expanding expertise. Automate routine tasks to reduce manual effort in operations. Support monitoring systems that trigger alerts for outages. Verify fixes in staging before changes reach production. Champion networking tools like mesh for service communication.

What you need to be successful

Background and skills

Hands-on, production expertise in the design, implementation and maintenance of Kubernetes Clusters is required. Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in AWS Cloud infrastructure and Services is mandatory for this role. Solid experience in Go is required for backend tasks. Previous experience with Linux, Terraform, and CD solutions (Argo or similar) is necessary. Networking experience with Mesh solutions (Istio or similar) is required. Monitoring, troubleshooting and incident management experience is required.

Nice to have

Relevant Backend development experience can help in this position.

Traits

Good communication skills and a sense of ownership, with a systematic problem-solving approach. Proactiveness, collaboration and eagerness to learn.

What's in it for you

Rewards and benefits

Your compensation for this role ranges from 80,000 euros to 100,000 euros per year. Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe's most talked about disruptors. Employee benefits include a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness and wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. Come together with your team in the office for a dedicated day of teamwork each week, plus another day of your choice, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. Some roles may require additional in-office presence. As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members. Additional day of annual leave for each year of service. A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and backgrounds. A relocation package with visa support for those who need it is provided.

Who we are

N26 has reimagined banking for today's digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it's how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use. We have eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Practical notes

Equal Opportunities

We recognize that our strength lies in our people. We are committed to equal opportunities and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds.