About the company
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
Responsibilities
- Build the Platform: Design and develop tooling and services in languages like Java, Python, Go or Rust. We also widely use Ansible and Puppet.
- Automate: Identify opportunities to migrate manual tasks to semi- or full automation.
- Deep Dive & Debug: Investigate complex performance bottlenecks at the kernel, network, or database level. Analyze system metrics, traces, and logs to identify root causes in a distributed environment.
- Developer Experience: Treat our internal product teams as your customers. Build tooling that abstracts the complexity of large-scale stateful systems, allowing product engineers to focus on business logic.
- Operational Excellence: Participate in the on-call rotation, not just to fix fires, but to learn from them and remove/reduce the toil.
Requirements
- A Systems Thinker: Deep understanding of Linux (networking, file systems, kernel tuning) and distributed systems principles.
- A Software Engineer: Proficient in Python, Java or Go. Write clean, testable, maintainable code to build infrastructure automation and internal tools.
- A Database Enthusiast: Understand the operational challenges of running databases (PostgreSQL, or similar) at scale.
- Problem Solver: Proactive, prefer performing root-cause analysis and building permanent fixes over applying temporary patches.
- Collaborative: Communicate complex infrastructure concepts to application engineers and work closely with Compute, Networking, and Storage teams.
- Bonus points for: Internal knowledge of PostgreSQL; Experience operating OpenStack or managing Bare Metal fleets; Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) and Secret Management (Vault); Experience with observability at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
Conditions
- Office-first company, value in-person collaboration; no remote-only roles.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments.