5 days ago

Staff Software Engineer - Observability

Adyen

Amsterdam

5 days ago

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Adyen is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Platform Observability team in Amsterdam. The role involves leading logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies, solving scaling bottlenecks in telemetry pipelines, and mentoring engineering teams. Requires 5+ years of experience with distributed systems, expertise in Go/Java, and hands-on experience with observability stacks.

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Staff Software Engineer - Observability

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Remote status: Remote; office-first company, value in-person collaboration; do not offer remote-only roles

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

GoJavaAPIsData PipelinesDockerKubernetesTerraformElasticsearchOpenSearchVictoriaLogsClickHousePrometheusVictoriaMetricsGrafana TempoOpenTelemetryAlertmanagerSLOsIncident Management

Soft Skills

Stakeholder managementTechnical communicationMentorshipMotivated to learnCollaboration

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

Highly available/fault-tolerant replicated data storage systemsLarge scale data processing systemsInfrastructure and Platform ExperienceOpen-source observability projects

Key Responsibilities

•Define and lead Logging, Metrics, Tracing & Alerting strategies
•Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in telemetry data pipelines
•Create advanced tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis, reduce MTTR, and eliminate alert fatigue
•Guide and mentor software engineering and SRE teams on monitoring best practices and instrumenting code
•Identify and tackle bottlenecks and single points of failure in the architecture
•Drive features and products idealization, implementation and adoption
•Collaborate on planning and refinement proactively providing input
•Respond to alerts and duty responsibilities, providing support and troubleshooting production issues

Staff Software EngineerObservabilityFinancial ServicesGoJavaKubernetesOpenTelemetryGrafanaRemoteAmsterdam

Key Responsibilities

•Define and lead Logging, Metrics, Tracing & Alerting strategies

•Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in telemetry data pipelines

•Create advanced tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis, reduce MTTR, and eliminate alert fatigue

•Guide and mentor software engineering and SRE teams on monitoring best practices and instrumenting code

•Identify and tackle bottlenecks and single points of failure in the architecture

•Drive features and products idealization, implementation and adoption

•Collaborate on planning and refinement proactively providing input

•Respond to alerts and duty responsibilities, providing support and troubleshooting production issues