Site Reliability Engineer

About the opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Continuous Deployment Team within our Platform Engineering Segment.

Platform Engineering's mission is to provide easy-to-use, self-service platforms that enable other segments to build, deploy, and monitor their business applications with minimal friction. As one of the first banks hosted entirely in the cloud, we hold ourselves to high standards of security, resilience, and productivity — and we use a modern technology stack to deliver on them for our development teams, the company, and our customers.

In this role, you will:

• Maintain, implement, and optimise the systems and applications that power CI/CD at N26
• Shape and influence N26's CD strategy, empowering development teams to deliver features faster
• Improve the security and compliance posture of our systems
• Implement security and compliance checks as a service within our CD pipeline offering
• Standardise our pipelines and raise the level of autonomy for our users
• Mentor other engineers and help improve our ways of working and engineering practices
• Take an active part in roadmap definition and prioritisation for our group
• Stay on top of incidents and production deployment issues, ensuring stable and predictable delivery

What you need to be successful:

Must have:

• Experience with at least one high-level programming language and its ecosystem. We use Python, Go, TypeScript, and Kotlin in our daily work.
• A good understanding of Linux, particularly networking, containerisation, and security. We operate in Unix-like environments every day.
• Experience with cloud service providers, ideally a hyperscaler such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Our primary cloud provider is AWS.
• Experience planning, building, and supporting scalable CI/CD pipelines using trunk-based development or GitHub Flow and Actions. Outside of mobile release constraints, we aim to deliver every change to production in minutes, not days.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in strict security- and compliance-oriented environments. Every action and change we make must be secure, traceable, and compliant — first and foremost.
• Experience planning, building, and supporting scalable CD pipelines using trunk-based development or GitHub Flow. Outside of mobile release constraints, we aim to deliver every change to production in minutes, not days.
• A good understanding of integrated CD platforms such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD. Our main pipeline driver is GitHub Actions.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform (OpenTofu), Ansible, or Salt. Almost all of our infrastructure is managed as code — no manual magic.
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes administration. Most of our workloads run on EKS, with a few exceptions.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors 🚀.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. 
• 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 - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, experiences, and backgrounds. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

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've 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. 

Do you see yourself thriving in this role? We’d love to see your application even if you don’t meet 100% of the criteria. You may just be the right fit for this or other roles!

Equal opportunities for all

At N26, we believe our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring. We strive to build diverse teams that drive innovation and business success. We actively seek talent from all backgrounds and welcome applications from all genders, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages.

We are committed to providing an excellent and accessible candidate experience. If you require any accommodations to make this process work for you, please let us know. We’re here to support you!

Discover more about Diversity & Inclusion at N26: https://n26.com/en-eu/diversity-and-inclusion