# Site Reliability Engineer - Observability at N26

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- **Company:** N26 (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/n26)
- **Location:** Spain
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 2–5 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Observability, Metrics, Logs, Traces, Prometheus, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, Vector, Beats, FluentBit, OpenSearch, Grafana, GoLang, Python, Linux, Terraform
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-09-03
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-09-04
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://n26.com/en-eu/careers/positions/8053277?gh_jid=8053277 (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/site-reliability-engineer-observability-n26

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain end-to-end observability pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) for cloud-native infrastructure and microservices.
- Implement and operate extraction, transformation and ingestion tooling (Prometheus, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, Vector, Beats, FluentBit) and storage/visualization (OpenSearch, Grafana, Datadog as needed).
- Deliver developer-focused dashboards, alerts and runbooks to improve mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover.
- Automate repetitive tasks, alerting, incident playbooks and reliability checks using code and CI/CD.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code to provision observability resources and enforce secure, compliant defaults.
- Collaborate with platform teams and service owners to instrument applications, define SLOs and run post-incident reviews.

Requirements:
- Solid understanding of observability foundations: metrics, logs and distributed traces.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus/StatsD/OpenTelemetry and log pipeline tooling (Vector, Beats, FluentBit) and dashboards/storage (OpenSearch, Grafana, Datadog).
- Proficiency in a scripting/compiled glue language (Go or Python) and comfortable working on Linux systems.
- Experience operating in cloud environments and managing infra as code (Terraform, AWS CDK or similar).
- Strong troubleshooting, automation-first mindset, and ability to communicate observability patterns to engineers and stakeholders.
- Willingness to learn, adapt quickly, and work in a fast-paced, security-conscious, cloud-hosted banking environment.

## Responsibilities

You will build and maintain tools for monitoring infrastructure and microservices while prioritizing developer experience. Additionally, you will contribute to incident prevention and system reliability through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.

## Requirements

Candidates must have strong experience with observability building blocks like metrics, logs, and traces, along with proficiency in GoLang or Python. You should also be comfortable operating in a cloud-native, Linux-based environment using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and AWS CDK.

## FAQ

- **Is this Site Reliability Engineer - Observability role still open?** It was posted on 2026-09-03. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check N26's site before applying.
- **Does N26 offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on N26's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Spain. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Observability, Metrics, Logs, Traces, Prometheus, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, Vector, Beats, FluentBit, OpenSearch, Grafana, GoLang, Python, Linux, Terraform.

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