Site Reliability Engineer - Observability at N26
Germany
Posted
on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship
Responsibilities:
- Build and operate observability platforms that collect, transform and present metrics, logs and traces for services across the platform.
- Create developer-centric dashboards, alerts, instrumentation patterns and SLOs that enable quick detection and recovery.
- Maintain and improve data pipelines (Prometheus, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, Vector/Beats/FluentBit) and storage/visualization layers (OpenSearch, Grafana, Datadog).
- Automate deployment and configuration of observability components using IaC and CI/CD; enforce secure defaults and monitoring hygiene.
- Participate in incident response, runbooks, and post-incident analysis to reduce recurrence.
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to onboard services and improve observability practices.
Requirements:
- Strong familiarity with observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, traces and how they map to reliability needs.
- Practical experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, log shippers (Vector/Beats/FluentBit) and visualization/storage tools (Grafana/OpenSearch/Datadog).
- Programming experience in Go or Python and fluency with Linux operating environments.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK or equivalent).
- Good communication skills, a pragmatic automation-first approach, and an eagerness to learn in a fast-moving environment.