Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Connectivity

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Segment in the Mesh Team.

The mission of Platform Engineering is to provide trusted, performant, self-service platforms to empower product teams to build the bank the world loves to use.

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.

In this role, you will:

Be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our service mesh in order to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our services. Working in this area involves a deep understanding of microservices, service mesh architecture, networking protocols and cloud computing, as well as the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.

More specifically, you will:

Design, develop and implement systems, services and solutions, with the aim of improving the security, reliability, scalability and availability of systems in the following domains:

Service Mesh

Internal Networking

Partner Connectivity

Secrets Management

Service Discovery

Take ownership of our service mesh and it's underlying network stack and ensure its optimal performance and reliability

Ensure N26 availability by creating monitors and alerts, diagnose, and resolve issues related to the service mesh

Collaborate with other teams and support them in bringing critical new features to N26

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and new technology developments in service mesh

Identify and automate repetitive tasks

Monitor the health of your system and support them as part of an on-call rotation

What you need to be successful:

Background and skills:

Professional experience as an SRE or DevOps engineer

Hands-on, production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Knowledge of Go and/or Python

Broad understanding of systems (Linux) and networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, etc.)

Knowledge of VPNs and/or hands-on experience with implementation a bonus

Expertise in container virtualization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) as well as experience with service mesh implementations (Istio)

Performance monitoring and incident analysis

Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Salt/Ansible

Proactive, with an ability to work with a high degree of autonomy

Desire to learn, improve and leave systems in a better state than you found them in

Traits:

Independently lead tech projects

Lead and promote technical discussions with engineering audiences

Mentoring & support of Junior & Mid-level engineers

Review, assessment & improvement of the current team tool landscape

You are on top of incidents, generate learnings and follow up

Deepest understanding of everything built by the team

Leading specialist activities, drive tech projects independently

Bring architectural & technical debt issues into the backlog

You see the delivery of your team in a broad, domain-wide context

Building bridges to other areas and be the glue in your own team

Take full responsibility for your work and projects you participate

Mature & solution-oriented tech counterpart in any discussion

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.

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