Staff Engineer, Monetization

Adyen

5 months ago

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

Architect and drive adoption of scalable and high-performance data pipelines and reporting framework components.
Continuously assess and improve existing data systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.
Evaluate and integrate new data tools and technologies to optimize our data ecosystem.
Lead through influence by building strong relationships across the organization.
Proactively define and advocate best practices in performance, code quality, data validation, and governance.
Guide and mentor other engineers in advanced data engineering and architectural principles.
Inspire distributed teams to achieve shared goals.

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years as a Senior or Staff Engineer leading large-scale backend systems.
Deep understanding of server-side engineering principles, with hands-on experience in Java or other backend languages.
Familiarity with data systems and pipelines (SQL, Kafka, Airflow, or similar).
Experience ensuring data quality and lineage in mission-critical flows.
Familiarity with observability and incident response practices (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, or equivalents).
Skilled at influencing without direct authority and aligning diverse stakeholders.
Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic short-term trade-offs.

Apache AirflowApache KafkaGrafanaJavaPrometheusSQL