Senior Linux Security Engineer, Adyen
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have a strong background in Linux system internals and are comfortable working in a command-line environment
- You have experience in securing, hardening, and automating large-scale, on-premise infrastructures
- You possess working knowledge of threat prevention, detection capabilities, and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS)
- You excel at collaborating across cyber security, infrastructure, and development teams
- You are passionate about cybersecurity and continuously seek to deepen your knowledge
- Strong expertise in Linux systems security, including system internals and hardening
- Experience with threat prevention, detection, and mitigation techniques
- Knowledge of hardening and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS)
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)
- Experience with container security, private cloud infrastructure, and security APIs
- Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain or Mitre ATT&CK framework is a plus
What the job involves
- Adyen is seeking an experienced Linux Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure Security team in Amsterdam
- You will play a critical role in securing and scaling our real-time, distributed 24/7 infrastructure
- As a Linux Security Engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the security aspects of our platform
- You will design and implement robust threat prevention and detection capabilities, system hardening, and secure configurations that protect our infrastructure at scale
- Secure and harden Linux-based systems across multiple global data centers
- Develop and implement advanced threat prevention, detection capabilities, and compliance monitoring
- Design and enforce security baselines, system hardening techniques, and secure configurations
- Perform audits and monitor compliance to minimize the attack surface
- Collaborate across teams to ensure security is integrated into every stage of system development and operations
- Continuously optimize existing security measures and design new controls to enhance our security posture
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 €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
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 to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. 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
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36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $319.5m
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 values
- We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
- We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
- We launch fast and iterate
- Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
- We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
- We talk straight without being rude
- We include different people to sharpen our ideas
- We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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