Site Reliability Engineer

About N26

N26 is Europe’s first Mobile Bank with a full European banking license. We have 2.5 million customers across 24 markets. Our team of over 1000 employees in 4 locations is concentrated on reinventing the banking experience for the digital generation. Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal founded N26 in 2013 and launched the initial product in early 2015. Since January 2015, N26 has been available for Android, iOS, and desktop. N26 has raised more than $500 million from investors including Insight Venture Partners, GIC, Tencent, Allianz X, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, Greyhound Capital, Battery Ventures, in addition to members of the Zalando management board, and Redalpine Ventures.

Position

We are seeking a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Segment in one of its sub-teams.

The Platform Engineering goal is to provide easy to use, self-service platforms to enable other segments to easily build, deploy and monitor their business applications.

As one of the first banks completely hosted in the cloud - our security, resilience and productivity standards require a motivated and well balanced team. We are using a modern technology stack to match our principles when it comes to providing the framework for our development team, the company and our customers.

In this role, you will:

• Be part of one of the following teams: Infrastructure, Observability, Connectivity or Software Logistics, while providing support to the product segments
• Maintain and develop N26’s completely virtual infrastructure
• Ensure reliability, scalability and adhere to the DevOps philosophy
• Interact with a variety of stakeholders; most notably, engineers from product teams, the N26 Bank entity and TechOps (OfficeIT)
• Participate in a modern setup with hundreds of live deployments per week and automatic software supply chain checks
• Increase the productivity of our development teams by leading blameless postmortems
• Identify potential outages with our cutting edge monitoring stack

Your qualification

• Experience with at least one glue language (Python or Go preferred)
• Your brain runs Linux
• <3 for the cloud while knowing limitations and advantages (experience with cloud computing preferred)
• Strong interest in security-related topics
• CI/CD is your second name
• Working knowledge of protocols and standards like TCP, HTTP, UDP, DNS, TLS (you also know where they are in the OSI model)
• Ability to identify repeatable processes and automate them quickly
• Open mind and interest in providing a bleeding-edge infrastructure
• Desire to learn and improve

Traits:

• Actively help yourself (and others) be successful
• Continuously learn and challenge the status quo
• Think globally, act locally
• Strong bias for action
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

What we offer

• Accelerate your career growth by joining Germany’s #1 Top Startup, named by LinkedIn two years running
• Personal development budget, discounted public transit pass, German language classes, fitness memberships, childcare services, N26 premium bank card, employee loans, and your choice of a Mac or Windows laptop
• 26 vacation days per year, with an additional day for each year of service - up to 30 days
• A high degree of collaboration and autonomy while working with a group of international peers, getting things done attitude, and access to cutting edge technologies
• Rotating selection of hot and cold drinks and snacks in the office, Friday Celebrations once per month with pizza, wine, and beer, plus a monthly company-wide lunch and learn
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it