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Responsibilities
- Architect and execute the technical strategy for Adyen’s unified global observability platform.
- Lead the architectural revamp of petabyte-scale search, logging, metrics, and telemetry data systems.
- Design APIs, secure interfaces, and integration protocols connecting telemetry data to autonomous AI agents and conversational query tools.
- Create isolated, highly available regional architectures to improve operational stability and reduce blast radius.
- Build self-service developer tooling with automated schema enforcement and quota and retention management.
- Provide technical direction, lead design reviews, and guide engineers through complex distributed systems challenges.
- Advocate for observability capabilities and standards across engineering teams and drive adoption of developer-facing tools.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software, systems, or platform engineering, including 3+ years in a similar technical leadership role in observability or large-scale distributed data systems.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, scaling, and operating distributed search databases, time-series metrics systems, or high-performance logging architectures at multi-petabyte scale.
- Practical understanding of structuring, schema-enforcing, and cleaning high-volume telemetry streams for LLMs, semantic search engines, and RAG pipelines.
- Experience adopting telemetry collection frameworks such as OpenTelemetry and implementing SLO-driven alert governance.
- Strong software development proficiency, ideally in Go, Java, or Python, with experience building production-grade automated tooling and real-time data ingestion pipelines.
- Extensive experience operating and troubleshooting high-throughput workloads on production Kubernetes in on-premises and cloud environments.
- Understanding of system-level performance tuning across networking, storage, and operating system limits.
- Exceptional communication, system-design, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol or similar open standards for exposing platform data to AI agents and SRE assistants is nice to have.
- Experience with automated anomaly detection, conversational AI querying interfaces, or continuous profiling platforms is nice to have.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant isolation, capacity management, and cost-attribution frameworks is nice to have.
Benefits
- Based in the Amsterdam office.
- Office-first work environment with no remote-only option.
- Application responses targeted within 5 business days and an interview process that typically takes about 4 weeks.
- Flexibility available during the hiring process when needed.
About Adyen
Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft. For support visit: https://support.adyen.com