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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering. The Runtime Platform segment’s mission is to provide intuitive, self-service platforms that empower product and feature engineering teams across the organization to seamlessly build, deploy, run and monitor their business applications. As Engineering Manager, you will shape the core architectural bedrock of our technology platform, guiding engineers to evolve foundational cloud systems into robust, developer-centric platform products. You will have end-to-end ownership of the team’s scope, ensuring our cloud account baselines, container orchestration, networking, and secret management scale safely, efficiently, and autonomously. This role offers a unique opportunity to define the future of our cloud ecosystem, directly impacting developer velocity, platform resilience, and operational security.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the long-term roadmap for the Cloud Foundations segment, shifting fundamental cloud capabilities into self-service, developer-friendly products.
Enable development teams to autonomously provision infrastructure, manage secrets, and deploy workloads securely through well-defined APIs, robust tooling, and automated guardrails.
Oversee core platform capabilities including AWS cloud management, Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Terraform), and Privileged Access Platform.
Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of engineers specializing in cloud architecture, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
Promote a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared ownership.
Elevate engineering practices around automation, observability, resiliency, and secure-by-default architecture.
Balance rapid developer velocity with strict availability and security requirements.
Act as a strategic liaison between Engineering, Product, Security, and other stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and advocate for platform adoption.

Requirements

Proven experience leading high-impact platform, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps teams in a complex, scale-up, or enterprise environment.
Deep experience in AWS cloud architecture, automated multi-account management frameworks, and cloud networking baselines.
Proven track record of transforming foundational cloud infrastructure into product-led, self-service platform solutions that enhance developer experience.

Skills

Platform Engineering Principles: Solid grasp of self-service platform design, observability, automation, and secure-by-default architecture.
People Leadership: Strong skills in coaching, performance management, team building, and cultivating an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
Stakeholder Alignment: Excellent communication and influence skills, able to interface effectively with Security, Architecture, and Product teams.
Fluent English: Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
Strategic and Systemic Thinker: Design scalable, long-term systemic architecture and organizational models.
Product Mindset for Platforms: Treat internal developers as customers, actively listening to their friction points to build intuitive developer platforms.
Pragmatic & Decisive: Balance technical debt, risk, speed, and platform reliability.
Empowering Leader: Set high standards while providing trust, clarity, and psychological safety for autonomous innovation.

Location

Berlin
Vienna
Barcelona

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Benefits

Competitive personal development budget
Work from home budget
Discounts on fitness & wellness memberships
Discounts on language apps
Discounts on public transportation
Premium subscription on personal N26 bank account
Subscriptions for friends and family members
Additional day of annual leave for each year of service
High degree of autonomy
Access to cutting edge technologies

About the Company

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.
We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings.
Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.
We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Equal Opportunity

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce.
We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.
We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages.
We're committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination.
If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to candidate.exp@n26.com.
Visit our website to learn more about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at N26.