Staff Software Engineer, Platform Observability & Telemetry

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Observability team. You will design and own telemetry data pipelines across logs, metrics and traces, ensuring reliability as billions of events flow daily.

You will lead strategies for Logging, Metrics, Tracing and Alerting, tackle scaling bottlenecks, and build tools to speed root-cause analysis while mentoring engineers and SREs to improve platform reliability and user experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with highly distributed systems.
• 2+ years in building APIs and data pipelines for real-time data ingestion.
• Experience improving software reliability across availability, performance and incident management.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Java.
• Strong understanding of system design tradeoffs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical communication.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes; infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Hands-on experience with core telemetry data stores and monitoring tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Logging, Metrics, Tracing & Alerting strategies.
• Resolve scaling bottlenecks in telemetry data pipelines.
• Create tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis and reduce MTTR.
• Mentor engineers and SREs on monitoring best practices.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve observability platform reliability.
• Lead features from ideation to adoption in the observability domain.
• Collaborate on planning to align engineering efforts and reduce complexity.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs & data pipelines

Software reliability

Go/Java

System design

Stakeholder management

Docker & Kubernetes

Terraform

Observability tooling

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Tools

Elasticsearch

Opensearch

ClickHouse

Job description

Adyen in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Observability team. You will design and own telemetry data pipelines across logs, metrics and traces, ensuring reliability as billions of events flow daily.

You will lead strategies for Logging, Metrics, Tracing and Alerting, tackle scaling bottlenecks, and build tools to speed root-cause analysis while mentoring engineers and SREs to improve platform reliability and user experience.