Senior Platform Engineer, Adyen
Container Services
$180-243k
+ RSUs
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Be an early applicant
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-243k
+ RSUs
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on platform engineering experience: You have 7+ years of experience with platform, infrastructure, or software engineering
- Linux proficiency: Advanced skills in system administration, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls), and security fundamentals. Comfortable troubleshooting complex issues across the stack
- Container technologies expertise: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, cluster operations, networking, troubleshooting. Familiarity with HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
- On-prem / bare-metal experience: Comfortable operating on-prem infrastructure (i.e. outside of public cloud), bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle, storage, and datacenter operations
- Strong scripting and programming skills: Intermediate-to-advanced Bash proficiency and intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python or Go. Ability to build production-quality tooling and automation
- Nice to have: Prior experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount. Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet), load balancers (HAProxy, Nginx, etc) and infrastructure-as-code at scale
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago. This team owns and operates Adyen's core container orchestration infrastructure, the foundation that keeps our global payment platform running
- In this role, you will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure systems, drive automation and reliability improvements, and help scale Adyen's platform as we continue to grow globally
- Build and operate core infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infrastructure across our global private cloud
- Drive automation and reduce toil: Develop tooling and automation that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling self-service for engineering teams and reducing manual effort
- Ensure reliability at scale: Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident response and postmortem processes that continuously improve our operational posture
- Collaborate across teams and time zones: Work closely with platform engineers in Chicago, contributing to a global team that operates 24/7 infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters
- Shape platform evolution: Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and help drive platform modernization initiatives — including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7 billion, it raised over €1 billion and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14 billion. And its valuation has continued to climb in the years since.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping interested businesses to choose and then implement online payments - without the usual hoops to step through. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$57.4m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $325.7m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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