Senior Software Engineer (Observability)

• Adyen provides a global, unified platform with a wide variety of financial services. Observability plays a key role providing comprehensive data to a wide variety of use cases, ensuring the platform’s reliability and supporting our operations to run smoothly
• As part of the Observability team you will build and maintain products and services that enable engineers at Adyen to understand how their services are behaving in real-time, reliably diagnose issues and streamline data discovery through a common observability ecosystem
• Between logs, metrics and traces, our platform collects and processes billions of events per day
• As a Software Engineer working on the observability of the platform, you will play a key role in shaping how teams work with telemetry data, identifying and advocating for best practices for building, running and maintaining observable components
• Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our Logging, Metrics, Traces & Alerting pipeline
• Design and evolve APIs that will be used by other engineers in product teams, working together with them to identify pain points and opportunities
• Identify and tackle bottlenecks and single points of failures in the architecture aiming to improve the reliability of the observability platform and the overall user experience
• Driving features and products idealization, implementation and adoption
• Collaborate on planning and refinement proactively providing input whilst striving for engineering alignment, quality and reducing complexity and dependencies
• Respond to alerts and duty responsibilities, like providing support to other engineers and troubleshooting production issues

Benefits

• Global exchange program
• Weekly happy hour
• Delicious healthy lunches
• Phantom share package
• Yearly trip to Amsterdam
• Paid holidays
• Work from home opportunities- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code tools(e.g: Terraform)
• Highly motivated to learn and continuously develop yourself
• Solid understanding of system design and evaluating its tradeoffs
• Proficiency developing and maintaining software written in Go and/or Java
• Expertise in designing and implementing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput, real-time data ingestion
• 5+ years of experience working with highly distributed systems
• Experience improving software reliability between different categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, SLOs and incident management
• Demonstrated track record of leading and delivering project and features end to end
• Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
• Observability Stack Expertise: You have hands-on experience operating core telemetry data stores at scale e.g. Elasticsearch/Opensearch/VictoriaLogs/Clickhouse for logging, Prometheus/ VictoriaMetrics for metrics and Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing, Grafana LGTM stack, OpenTelemetry, Alertmanager
• Experience with highly available/fault tolerant, replicated data storage systems, large scale data processing systems is a strong plus
• Infrastructure and Platform Experience
• Contributions to open-source observability projects- Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role