Platform Engineer, Distributed Data Stores (NoSQL)

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Platform Engineer for our NoSQL team with a strong background in Python or Go to join our team in Amsterdam. Our platforms scale rapidly, and you will help develop, optimize, and scale distributed data systems powering our core services.

In this role you will work at the intersection of software engineering, database administration, and infrastructure operations, building tools that manage data stores and the underlying infrastructure that keeps our clusters running, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience working with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis, Clickhouse, or similar technologies.
• Solid programming experience with Python or Go, with a track record of building reliable infrastructure automation and developer tooling.
• Familiar with partitioning, replication, consistency models, and CAP theorem. Familiar with data distribution strategies like sharding and consistent hashing.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments with distributed systems.
• You are a proactive problem solver, willing to take ownership of challenges. A team player with a strong desire to learn and improve continuously.
• Develop and maintain tools and libraries for managing different distributed data stores, automating routine tasks, and ensuring consistent deployment practices.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation once or twice a month, responding to and resolving urgent issues to maintain system stability and minimize downtime.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust tooling and automation using Python or Go to manage, scale, and monitor distributed data stores.
• Design, build, and optimize distributed data stores to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability.
• Develop and implement data partitioning, clustering, and sharding strategies for large-scale global systems.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and work on mission critical systems to ensure availability in production environments.

Skills

Distributed data stores

Python

Go

Infrastructure automation

Developer tooling

On-call rotation

Team player

Tools

Cassandra

Redis

Clickhouse

Elasticsearch

Job description

Adyen is seeking a Platform Engineer for our NoSQL team with a strong background in Python or Go to join our team in Amsterdam. Our platforms scale rapidly, and you will help develop, optimize, and scale distributed data systems powering our core services.

In this role you will work at the intersection of software engineering, database administration, and infrastructure operations, building tools that manage data stores and the underlying infrastructure that keeps our clusters running, ensuring