Senior Observability Infrastructure Engineer
Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products. It serves global enterprises, retailers, platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About Adyen
Adyen provides payment processing and financial technology services through a single platform. Its offerings include online and in-person payments, payment methods, risk management, authentication, revenue optimization, issuing, payouts, liquidity management, embedded accounts, and capital. Adyen typically serves global enterprises, retailers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About the Role
You will build and operate observability infrastructure across on-premise and Kubernetes environments. You will design logging and metrics architecture, manage hybrid infrastructure, automate operations with Go or Python, optimize telemetry systems at scale, improve CI pipelines, and develop reliability and self-service solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in observability or platform/infrastructure engineering
- Experience operating telemetry data stores at scale
- Linux kernel-level experience
- Production Kubernetes experience
- Experience with bare-metal and virtualized hardware
- Proficiency in Go or Python
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience with multi-tenant isolation and quota or cost governance approaches
- Familiarity with regulated environments
Responsibilities
- Design and implement logging and metrics architecture
- Redesign infrastructure for global regions, data isolation, and regulatory compliance
- Manage the lifecycle of over 1,500 servers
- Write Go or Python automation
- Build self-healing systems
- Improve CI pipelines
- Optimize distributed tracing and logging pipelines
- Tune Elasticsearch clusters
- Optimize Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics storage
- Maintain OpenTelemetry performance
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Upgrade the observability stack
- Implement automated guardrails and quota management
- Design safer API access patterns