Senior Linux infrastructure engineer

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

The Role

You will join a team of experienced system engineers who are responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining and automating our load balancers, dns and other critical Infrastructure services while focusing on reducing engineering operational toil, increasing reliability and aligning infrastructure decisions with the company objectives.

You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions

What You’ll Do

• Maintain On-Prem Infrastructure
• Optimize our load balancing infrastructure, ensuring our services remain highly available, reliable and responsive even during traffic spikes.
• Automate time-consuming manual tasks into efficient, one-click operations, freeing up your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to understand upcoming features, translating their needs into robust infrastructure solutions that scale.
• Work cross-functionally with SRE teams and other infrastructure teams within Platform Engineering
• Participate in architectural discussions, leveraging your experience to influence key decisions that align our infrastructure with long-term business goals.
• Maintain our Load Balancer, CDN, and other critical services
• Drive innovations and improvement to our Adyen Platform 

Who You Are 

• You have worked with open source Load Balancers solutions at scale
• You have experience with distributed systems
• You have worked with DNS and Domain management
• You’re proficient with Linux operating systems/distributions

Technical Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in Linux systems 
• Solid experience with Load Balancing and Reverse Proxies technologies, HAProxy
• You have experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Puppet
• You’re proficient in scripting languages such as Bash, Python
• Experience with DNS technologies, PowerDNS, Bind, etc
• Experience with System Design

Nice to have

• Experience with CI/CD, Containers, Virtualization
• Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
• Knowledge of programming in Golang
• Experience with the Java, Tomcat
• Experience in systems Observability
• Experience with Incident Management

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

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.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.