Job Application for Software Engineer (Java)

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, 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. The people of Adyen 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.

Observability

Adyen provides a global, unified platform with a wide variety of financial services. Observability plays a key role providing comprehensive data to a wide variety of use cases, ensuring the platform’s reliability and supporting our operations to run smoothly.

As part of the Observability team you will build and maintain products and services that enable engineers at Adyen to understand how their services are behaving in real-time, reliably diagnose issues and streamline data discovery through a common observability ecosystem. Between logs, metrics and traces, our platform collects and processes billions of events per day.

What you will do

As a Software Engineer working on the observability of the platform, you will play a key role in shaping how teams work with telemetry data, identifying and advocating for best practices for building, running and maintaining observable components.

This includes:

Design and evolve APIs that will be used by other engineers in product teams, working together with them to identify pain points and opportunities.
Identify and tackle bottlenecks and single points of failures in the architecture aiming to improve the reliability of the observability platform and the overall user experience.
Driving features and products idealization, implementation and adoption.
Collaborate on planning and refinement proactively providing input whilst striving for engineering alignment, quality and reducing complexity and dependencies.
Respond to alerts and duty responsibilities, like providing support to other engineers and troubleshooting production issues

Who you are

5+ years of experience working with distributed systems
Experience improving software reliability between different categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, SLOs and incident management.
Proficiency developing and maintaining software written in Java
Proficiency writing applications that uses Postgres as databases
Solid understanding of system design and evaluating it’s tradeoffs
Demonstrated track record of delivering project and features end to end
Highly motivated to learn and continuously develop yourself

Highly encourage you to apply if you have:

Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Golang
Experience with Grafana LGTM stack and ELK stack.

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.

Please note that this role is a full-time position in Amsterdam. It will require a relocation in case you live outside of the Netherlands.

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