Software Engineer - Release Tooling

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Software Engineer in Release & Tooling to design and develop scalable tooling and CI/CD pipelines that support Adyen’s monthly firmware and mobile releases. You will collaborate across teams to optimize and scale the reliability of our global payment infrastructure.

The role focuses on building automation, analytical observability, and robust release processes to minimize manual overhead and improve deployment velocity.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with a focus on release tooling and automation.
• Experience building scalable tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability, test automation, and quality reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance scalable tooling, frameworks, and continuous delivery pipelines to automate monthly firmware and mobile releases.
• Scale analytics and observability by designing data-driven health reports for terminal devices.
• Advance automation frameworks to reduce manual overhead and improve release reliability.

Job description

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.

Software Engineer - Release Tooling

As a Software Engineer in Release & Tooling, you will build the release tooling and testing frameworks and monitoring tools that power Adyen’s monthly firmware and mobile releases. Collaborating across teams, you will directly optimize and scale the reliability of our global physical payment infrastructure.

Payments Solution, Devices Stream

Adyen devices enable merchants with physical stores to accept card or eWallet present transactions. It's relevant for retailers in fashion, electronic and consumer goods, lifestyle and leisure (i.e. gyms, theme parks) and hospitality (i.e. hotels, quick service restaurants, bars, cafes).

Integrated with the Adyen platform, POS terminals help merchants to evolve and provide future focused in-store shopping experiences. Our one system, one partner and one contract set-up enables merchants to go global effortlessly with latest payment innovations and features.

Rollout and Observability

The Rollout & Observability team is responsible for the predictable, secure, and data-driven deployment of terminal firmware to the devices in the field. Operating on a strict monthly release cadence, the team uses the continuous delivery pipelines, automation tooling, and quality gates necessary to transition firmware safely from development to production environments.

Our mission is to eliminate manual overhead, minimize human error, and provide absolute visibility into release health.

1. Release Engineering & Orchestration

• Cadence Management: The team owns and executes the end-to-end monthly terminal firmware release lifecycle.
• Process Optimization: Continuously analyzes the release train to eliminate bottlenecks, shorten feedback loops, and improve deployment velocity.
• Risk Mitigation: Implements guardrails and automated "error-proofing" mechanisms to ensure releases are deterministic and safe.

1. Test Automation Infrastructure & Tooling

• Unified Execution Frameworks: The team uses internal tools used to schedule, execute, and monitor firmware testing across highly diverse environments.
• Robotic & Framework Integration: The team coordinates the automated test suites utilizing physical robotics and farms to simulate real-world user interactions.

1. Observability & Quality Reporting

• Data-Driven Quality Gates: Develops and maintains the release quality reporting engine that aggregates test results from all frameworks.
• Health Metrics & Insights: Provide actionable telemetry and comprehensive quality reports to stakeholders, ensuring a firmware version meets strict stability criteria before production rollout.

What you’ll do:

As the Software Engineer in Release & Tooling, you will be part of the Integrity Stream and focussed on:

Build & Enhance Tooling:

Design and develop scalable software tools, frameworks, and continuous delivery pipelines to automate and support monthly firmware releases and mobile releases.

Scale Analytics & Observability:

Analyze our current infrastructure to design future-proof, data-driven analytics systems that track and report the health of Adyen’s payment terminals.

Advance Automation Frameworks:

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