Senior Site Reliability Engineering - Database Operations

Skills

Location

We sponsors visa and relocation pack

Languages

Fluent English

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a dynamic Database Platform Team within the Platform Engineering Domain.

🎯 Responsibilities

  1. Design, develop, and implement platform solutions to improve the reliability, security, and scalability of database platform infrastructure.
  2. Provide technical leadership in cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and security for operational data storage solutions.
  3. Collaborate with Product Teams to ensure seamless database provisioning and operational efficiency.
  4. Mentor and coach team members to foster a culture of knowledge sharing, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
  5. Contribute to the team's strategy, roadmap, and architectural decisions.
  6. Lead and participate in incident management and troubleshooting to ensure stability and predictability.
  7. Define, implement, and maintain observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to meet platform availability targets.

🛠️ Requirements

  1. Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
  2. Expertise in operational data storage solutions such as PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, S3, or similar.
  3. Experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
  4. Strong skills in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools).
  5. Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
  6. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar).
  7. Familiarity with networking and security best practices in cloud environments.
  8. Working knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

➕ Nice to have

  1. Experience managing large-scale operational storage solutions in production systems.
  2. In-depth knowledge of database internals, including performance tuning, high-availability architectures (replication/failover), backup and recovery strategies, and sharding/clustering.

🌟 Key Traits

  1. Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  2. Ability to mentor engineers and work effectively across teams.
  3. Strong sense of ownership and proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement.
  4. Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
  5. Eagerness to learn and contribute to platform development as products.

🤗 We offer

  1. Opportunities for accelerated career growth within a rapidly evolving environment.
  2. Competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, and discounts for fitness & wellness memberships, language apps, and public transportation.
  3. Team collaboration days in the office each week, with flexible remote options the rest of the time.
  4. Premium access to personal and family bank account subscriptions.
  5. Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
  6. High degree of autonomy and access to cutting-edge technologies.
  7. Relocation package and visa support if required.
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N26

N26 is The Mobile Bank. N26 has redesigned banking to make it simple, fast and contemporary. Today N26 is one of the fastest growing banks in Europe and has more than 1 Million customers across 17 European markets and over 430 employees.

Benefits and perks

  • +Get Stuff Done Days
  • +Career development
  • +Personalized Onboarding

Location

Carrer de l'Escar, 26, 08039 Barcelona, Spain