Senior Backend Engineer - Security Automation
N26 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong security or SRE background to join its Security Engineering team. You will be part of a small, high-impact and independent team building and scaling the N26 Security Platform: internal products and automation engines that support multiple specialised security teams across the company. The role suits an engineer who thrives on autonomy and wants to solve high-stakes technical challenges at one of the first banks fully hosted in the cloud.
Responsibilities
- ▹Lead the architectural design and implementation of high-availability, high-performance backend services and platform components from concept to production
- ▹Develop tools and automation engines that enable specialised security teams to automate threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management at scale
- ▹Act as a technical partner to various streams within the organisation, building shared infrastructure and automation
- ▹Maintain a high bar for code quality, software architecture (distributed systems, Domain-Driven Design), automated testing and system reliability
- ▹Own the full lifecycle of your services ('You Build It, You Run It'), leveraging modern CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code
Requirements
- ▹5+ years of experience building production-grade software and managing complex backend architectures in large-scale production systems
- ▹Solid experience with software development best practices and modern architectures (distributed systems, Domain-Driven Design, testing frameworks)
- ▹Previous experience with cloud architectures, preferably AWS, alongside containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- ▹Strict commitment to clean code, comprehensive testing strategies, scalability and building secure, performant services
- ▹Full professional proficiency in English with excellent communication and documentation skills
Nice to have
- ▹Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering or security automation (integrating SAST/DAST, SIEM, SOAR, or building automated patching/remediation frameworks)
- ▹Hands-on experience developing and/or operating event streaming platforms, preferably Apache Kafka
- ▹Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code methodologies and tools, particularly Terraform
- ▹Hands-on experience or familiarity with data engineering pipelines and automated workflows
- ▹Experience developing software with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Competitive personal development budget and work-from-home budget
- ▹Discounts on fitness and wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation
- ▹Hybrid model: one dedicated teamwork day in the office each week plus another day of your choice, remote the rest of the time
- ▹Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account, plus subscriptions for friends and family
- ▹Additional day of annual leave for each year of service
- ▹High degree of autonomy and access to cutting-edge technologies in a diverse team
- ▹Relocation package with visa support for those who need it
About the company
N26 has reimagined banking for the digital world, eliminating physical branches, paperwork and hidden fees. It is headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple European cities including Vienna and Barcelona, and has a team of around 1,500 people of more than 80 nationalities.