At N26, security is the foundation of our bank. As one of the first banks completely hosted in the cloud—our security, resilience, and productivity standards require not only the use of a modern technology stack, but the building of teams in line with our principles and in the service of our product teams, the company, and our customers.
We are seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer with a strong security or SRE background to join our Security Engineering team. In this role, you will be part of a small, high-impact, and independent team responsible for building and scaling the N26 Security Platform. This team acts as a central force within our security organization, building internal products and automation engines that support multiple specialized teams across the company. Design and Own End-to-End Solutions: Lead the architectural design and implementation of high-availability, high-performance backend services and platform components, seeing them through from concept to production completion.
Build the Security Platform:



Develop tools and automation engines that enable specialized security teams to automate threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management at scale.
Enable the Organization: Act as a technical partner to various streams within the organization, building the shared infrastructure and automation they need to operate efficiently.
Drive Technical Excellence: Maintain an exceptionally high bar for code quality, software architectures (Distributed systems, Domain-Driven Design), automated testing, and system reliability right across the platform.
Champion "You Build It, You Run It": Own the full lifecycle of your services, leveraging modern CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code to ensure seamless, resilient cloud production deployments.
Strong Backend Foundation: 5+ years of experience building production-grade software applications and managing complex backend architectures in large-scale production systems.
Solid experience

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (España)
🏢 N26
📍 España