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Senior SOC Engineer
Department:Tech - Security Engineering
Location:Barcelona
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior / Lead SOC Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud-based logging and automation platforms that power our Security Operations Center. Our SOC Engineering team does design scalable AWS logging pipelines and manage ingestion into Google SecOps, and believes in proactive security, automation, and continuous improvement to stay ahead of evolving threats. In this role, you will lead key initiatives that strengthen visibility, automation, and detection capabilities across the organizationThis is a Hybrid role based in Berlin or Barcelona.
In This Role, You Will:
- Lead SOC engineering initiatives including SOC automation, SIEM–IT Service Management (ITSM) integration, and threat framework mapping and adoption (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK).
- Own data ingestion workflows for the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system and ensure high-quality, reliable telemetry.
- Support and integrate deceptive security technologies and participate in purple team exercises to enhance visibility and detection coverage.
- Collaborate with detection engineering, incident response, cloud teams, and security leadership to improve platform reliability and SOC effectiveness.
What You Need to Be Successful
Background:- 5+ years of experience in SOC engineering, security engineering, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale logging pipelines in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of SOC operations, detection workflows, and modern telemetry requirements.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS (S3, IAM, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, Step Functions, Glue, Athena, Glacier).
- Expertise with SIEM ingestion pipelines, ideally Google SecOps (Chronicle) with S3 ingestion.
- Strong understanding of log structures (JSON, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Syslog) and schema normalization.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash).
- Experience automating data validation, log onboarding, and pipeline health checks.
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping workflows using Navigator.
- Exposure to deceptive security technologies and telemetry pipelines.
- Experience supporting purple team exercises from a telemetry and engineering perspective.
- Google SecOps(Chronicle) engineering experience.
- Experience implementing automation for next-generation or Agentic SOC capabilities.
- Experience with deception frameworks (e.g., Canary, Thinkst, IllusionBLACK).
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 family statuses.
- A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.