Senior Database Engineer, Adyen
PostgreSQL
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 5+ years of experience working with PostgreSQL and/or CockroachDB, or have a very solid understanding of databases in general
- You have a strong sense of ownership towards projects, can take into account its technical requirements and follow up with the different stakeholders
- You can solve and follow up on unusual issues, whether individually or by collaborating with other team members
- You have an interest in expanding your knowledge about Databases, Infrastructure and Distributed Systems
- You are able to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues
- You are willing to keep up to date with newer technologies and security requirements
- You are proactive in bringing in improvements
- You are able to work under pressure if needed
- You have a strong interest in automation
- You are interested in contributing to the PostgreSQL community
What the job involves
- As a Database Engineer, you will be part of our Platform Engineering Solution, and would be working mostly with Linux operating systems, using tools such as Ansible and Puppet. We expect you to like working with Linux operating systems, and to make use of your infrastructural knowledge as well
- The main databases you would be working with are PostgreSQL and CockroachDB, but there may be cases of introducing further databases onto our platform
- All our Database Engineers work closely together, as well as with other teams, such as Network, Data Center and various Development Teams.
- We expect you to be good at teamwork, skilled in communication and negotiation, as well as have the ambition to grow and improve, and be able to and willing to get to know and understand a complex system and learning and adapting to new technologies
- We also expect you to be proactive in your way of working, owning projects and reaching out to others both within and outside of our team when assistance is required
- As a Database Engineer, you are to take into consideration the scalability and reliability of our whole database platform, to think about better practices and improvements, and to execute and oversee them being executed.
- You will be involved in investigation of unusual issues, application releases, monitoring and consulting with other teams on bringing in best practices.
- You are to ensure our databases operate smoothly on a daily basis, bringing in automation and improvements wherever needed
- With your strong analytical skills you will focus on performance investigation, capacity planning and taking ownership of necessary improvements
- You will work on scaling and optimising our systems, investigating new technologies
- You are to take into consideration improvement points for our platform and bring in the necessary solutions to achieve best reliability and scalability methodologies
- You are responsible for keeping the databases running smoothly, keeping their environments up-to-date, managing users, provisioning and configuring databases and performing database switches etc
- You are keeping a watch over our alerting system, monitoring performance, helping improving query performance
- You are managing and testing back-up and recovery plans, ensuring that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly
- You are writing database documentation and procedures
- You are automating, testing and bringing in improvements on our processes
Application process
- 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. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327m
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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