Site reliability engineer for partner connectivity

Site reliability engineer for partner connectivity

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.

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.)
• 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
• 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 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, life experiences and backgrounds.
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.