Site Reliability Engineer - Access Team
N26, a fully cloud-hosted digital bank, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Access Team within the Platform Engineering domain. The role is responsible for designing and maintaining the systems that govern how humans and services access the AWS environment, ensuring least-privilege, automated and audit-ready access. You will build sophisticated access solutions such as Just-In-Time (JIT) provisioning and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to protect customers and data.
Responsibilities
- ▹Manage and scale the Teleport infrastructure for secure access to servers, databases and Kubernetes clusters
- ▹Develop and maintain automated Identity and Access Management (IAM) workflows within AWS
- ▹Implement and improve Just-In-Time (JIT) access solutions to reduce the permanent attack surface
- ▹Collaborate with the Cloud Control team to integrate security policies into infrastructure provisioning
- ▹Automate authorization flows to ensure regulatory compliance without slowing engineering velocity
- ▹Maintain and improve the Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for all access-related components
- ▹Support internal and external audits with technical evidence and identify and remediate gaps in the access landscape
- ▹Create monitors and alerts for access patterns and resolve authentication and authorization issues
Requirements
- ▹Production expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically IAM, Organizations and multi-account security
- ▹Hands-on experience with access management tools, preferably Teleport, or similar PAM/JIT solutions
- ▹Strong experience with Terraform for managing cloud resources and security policies
- ▹Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals (OIDC, SAML, SSH, TLS, TCP/IP)
- ▹Programming experience in Go and/or Python to automate security workflows
- ▹Familiarity with compliance frameworks and the ability to translate audit requirements into technical solutions
- ▹Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) from an access and RBAC perspective
- ▹A security-first mindset with a proactive approach to complex permission issues
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Competitive personal development budget and work-from-home budget
- ▹Discounts to fitness and wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation
- ▹Hybrid model: one dedicated team day in the office per week plus another day of your choice, remote the rest
- ▹Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account, including for friends and family
- ▹An additional day of annual leave for each year of service
- ▹High degree of autonomy and access to cutting-edge technologies
- ▹Relocation package with visa support for those who need it
About the company
N26 has reimagined banking for the digital world, building a global banking platform without physical branches, paperwork or hidden fees. Headquartered in Berlin with offices across Europe including Vienna and Barcelona, it has a team of more than 1,500 people of over 80 nationalities. As one of the first banks completely hosted in the cloud, its security and compliance standards are industry-leading.