Systems Engineer - Banking Foundations

About the opportunity 

Banking Foundations domain mission for N26 is to provide secure and compliant banking services that are frictionless and innovative for customers, while enabling efficient operations and informed decision-making for our staff. We achieve this through robust customer identity verification, proactive risk management, and seamless customer support. This foundation enables N26 to achieve sustainable growth while maintaining the highest levels of trust with our customers and regulators. This role focuses on owning and optimizing the

global, large-scale cloud infrastructure

that powers our organization, with a specific emphasis on supporting

third-party tools,

key

AI-related services

and the related integrations. You'll be instrumental in driving operational efficiency and scalability across our systems.

In this role, your key responsibilities will be:

• System Ownership & Lifecycle:

  Own the entire system life cycle

  for our public cloud-based infrastructure, including requirements gathering, architecting, vetting, building, and operational management.

• Automation & Operational Efficiency:

  Drive significant improvements in

  operational efficiency

  by developing

  scripts and integrations

  to automate repetitive operational tasks, reducing the need for manual intervention.

• AI Infrastructure Provisioning:

  Be a key contributor in

  provisioning and deploying infrastructure resources

  specifically tailored to support our cutting-edge

  AI-related services and tools.

• Monitoring & Instrumentation:

  Develop and enhance

  instrumentation

  for comprehensive monitoring of system

  health, availability, security, efficiency, and scalability

  .

• Support & Troubleshooting:

  Manage a queue for

  troubleshooting escalations

  , actively address

  security vulnerability remediations

  , and handle manual tasks that require expert intervention.

• Documentation & Knowledge Transfer:

  Create

  accurate and clear technical documentation

  , develop robust support processes, and manage the knowledge transfer and support ownership hand-off to peers and other organizational units.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  Build

  trust and strong working relationships

  with senior leaders, operating managers, and professional staff across various teams regarding infrastructure needs and system requirements.

What you need to be successful:

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• AWS Services:

  Independently design, deploy, and manage production-level infrastructure using core AWS services.
  Should understand and apply best practices for security and cost optimization within these services.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

  Extensive experience using IaC (preferably

  Terraform or AWS CDK)

  to define, provision, and manage cloud resources in a repeatable and scalable manner.

  Own the implementation

  of IaC modules for new features and contribute to the improvement of existing codebases with extensive experience using tools like GIT-based tools.

• Containerization & Serverless:

  Practical experience deploying and operating containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes). Ability to independently develop and deploy operational tools and functions using
  services as

  AWS Lambda and Step Functions.

• DevOps practices and systems integrations:

  Extensive experience using and building CI/CD pipelines.

Automation & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Configuration Management:

  Hands-on expertise with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or Ansible, for maintaining fleet consistency and state.

• Monitoring & Observability:

  Proficiency setting up and customizing monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure system health and performance.

Nice to have:

• Experience in both

  Linux

  and

  Windows

  systems administration.

• Scripting for Operational Maturity:

  Solid proficiency in a high-level language like

  Python, Typescript or GO,

  to build robust automation tools and solve recurrent operational challenges, moving beyond simple one-off scripts.

• AWS AI/ML Tools:

  Direct experience provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure for key AI services, specifically:

  • Amazon SageMaker:

    Setting up and optimizing environments for notebooks, training jobs, and inference endpoints.

  • Amazon Bedrock:

    Integrating and managing access to foundation models and related infrastructure components.
• Workflow automations understanding.
• Experience in the fintech or similar highly regulated business domains.

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, life 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.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position.

Equal Opportunities: We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential. We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages. We're committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination. If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to candidate.exp@n26.com.  Visit our website to learn more about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at N26.