Software Engineer - PostgresSQL

Software Careers; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Software Engineer for SQL Database Enablement to shape the resilience, performance, and developer experience of our database platform. You will join the SQL Databases Enablement Team, driving efficiency and autonomy while maintaining data durability and uptime.

You will design tooling in Python, Java or Go, automate tasks, and collaborate across Compute, Networking, and Storage to detect and recover from failures with minimal downtime.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux and distributed systems knowledge.
• Proficient in Python, Java or Go and writing maintainable code.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar databases at scale.
• Experience operating OpenStack or Bare Metal fleets.

Responsibilities

• Build tooling and services to support SQL databases platform.
• Automate manual tasks to improve efficiency.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks at kernel, network, or DB level.
• Improve developer experience by abstracting complexity.
• Participate in on-call rotation and reduce toil.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Linux

Distributed systems

Debugging

On-call

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

OpenStack

Vault

Job description

This is 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.

Software Engineer for SQL Database Enablement

We’re looking for a versatile Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering organization and help shape the resilience, performance, and developer experience of Adyen’s database platform. In 2026, this platform supports payments and money movement totaling over a trillion euros - the work you do will have a real, high-stakes impact. You'll join the SQL Databases Enablement Team, whose mission is to improve the efficiency of the SQL Databases Teams as well as to enable the autonomy of the database owners while maintaining data durability and database uptime. We are responsible for providing better insight into databases, the release tools to manage schema changes safely, as well as the extension of databases both to new DCs and existing ones as well as deployment to bare metal and OpenStack, and various additional tools automated and semi-automated. You’ll work across networking, compute, and storage, designing systems that detect failures and recover automatically with minimal downtime.

What you’ll do:

• Build the Platform: Design and develop tooling and services in languages like Java, Python, Go or Rust. We also widely use ansible and puppet.
• Automate: Identify opportunities to migrate manual tasks to semi- or full automation.
• Deep Dive & Debug: Investigate complex performance bottlenecks at the kernel, network, or database level. You will analyze system metrics, traces, and logs to identify root causes in a distributed environment.
• Developer Experience: Treat our internal product teams as your customers. You will build tooling that abstracts the complexity of large-scale stateful systems, allowing product engineers to focus on business logic.
• Operational Excellence: Participate in the on-call rotation, not just to fix fires, but to learn from them and remove/reduce the toil.

Who you are:

• A Systems Thinker: You have a deep understanding of Linux (networking, file systems, kernel tuning) and distributed systems principles. You understand what happens when a stateful service fails in a distributed environment.
• A Software Engineer: You are proficient in Python, Java or Go. You don’t just write scripts, you write clean, testable, maintainable code to build infrastructure automation and internal tools.
• A Database Enthusiast: You understand the operational challenges of running databases (PostgreSQL, or similar) at scale.
• Problem Solver: You are proactive. You prefer performing root-cause analysis and building permanent fixes over applying temporary patches.
• Collaborative: You can communicate complex infrastructure concepts to application engineers and work closely with Compute, Networking, and Storage teams.

Bonus points for:

• Internal knowledge of PostgreSQL.
• Experience operating OpenStack or managing Bare Metal fleets.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) and Secret Management (Vault).
• Experience with observability at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

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.

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 [CITY NAME] office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.