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Senior Observability Infrastructure Engineer

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adyen logoAdyen · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Full-timeOn-site1mo ago30+ days old, may be filled
ComplianceElasticsearchGrafanaKubernetesLinuxObservability
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Responsibilities

  • Build the next generation of our platform: Design and implement the future architecture of our logging and metrics systems. You will play a key role in redesigning our infrastructure to support new global regions, ensuring data isolation and regulatory compliance in different geographies, and more.
  • Own infrastructure operations: You will take full ownership of our hybrid infrastructure, managing the lifecycle of over 1,500 servers across both bare-metal and Kubernetes environments.
  • What you bring
  • 10+ years of experience in the observability domain or in a relevant platform/infrastructure domain.
  • 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.
  • Linux Experience : You understand the operating system at a kernel level and can debug complex networking, file system, and performance issues on both bare metal and virtualized hardware .
  • Software Engineering Mindset: You are proficient in Go or Python and do not just write scripts; you build tools and automation platforms that treat infrastructure as code.

Requirements

  • Experience with large scale, multi tenant isolation and quota or cost governance approaches for telemetry platforms.
  • Familiarity with regulated environments where security, audibility, and data handling requirements shape platform design decisions.
  • Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitments

Benefits

Equity / stock options

Additional Information

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. The people of Adyen are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Senior Observability Infrastructure Engineer We are looking for an experienced Observability Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Engineering organization. You will be part of the team responsible for building and running Observability pillars on premise and on Kubernetes. Our systems collect, process, and store the logs, metrics, and traces that allow hundreds of product teams to monitor their services in real time. This is a role for a builder and a problem solver who enjoys deep technical troubleshooting across distributed systems and then turns recurring issues into automated, repeatable solutions. You will work in a large-scale environment where we manage petabytes of data and thousands of servers. We are currently in the middle of a major transformation: focusing on automation of operations and enabling self service for our users.


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