Senior Platform Engineer - Container Services

EngineersOfAI; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago to design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our global private cloud. You will own container orchestration (Kubernetes) and drive automation to reduce toil while ensuring high availability.

Collaborate with platform engineers across time zones, contribute to platform modernization, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain reliability in a 24/7 environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of platform, infrastructure, or software engineering experience.
• Linux system administration, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Hands-on Kubernetes at scale, cluster operations, troubleshooting.
• On-prem/bare-metal infrastructure experience.
• Bash scripting plus Python or Go for tooling.
• Nice to have FinTech or regulated industry exposure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infrastructure across our global private cloud.
• Drive automation and reduce toil: Develop tooling and automation that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling self-service for engineering teams and reducing manual effort.
• Ensure reliability at scale: Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident response and postmortem processes that continuously improve our operational posture.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones: Work closely with platform engineers in Chicago, contributing to a global team that operates 24/7 infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters.
• Shape platform evolution: Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and help drive platform modernization initiatives - including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization.

Skills

Platform engineering

Linux administration

Networking & security fundamentals

Bash scripting

Python or Go

Incident response & on-call

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Consul

Nomad

Vault

ArgoCD

HAProxy

Nginx

Ansible

Puppet

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.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago. This team owns and operates Adyen's core container orchestration infrastructure, the foundation that keeps our global payment platform running. In this role, you will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure systems, drive automation and reliability improvements, and help scale Adyen's platform as we continue to grow globally.

What You'll Do

• Build and operate core infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infrastructure across our global private cloud.
• Drive automation and reduce toil: Develop tooling and automation that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling self-service for engineering teams and reducing manual effort.
• Ensure reliability at scale: Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident response and postmortem processes that continuously improve our operational posture.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones: Work closely with platform engineers in Chicago, contributing to a global team that operates 24/7 infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters.
• Shape platform evolution: Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and help drive platform modernization initiatives - including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization.

Who You Are: The Essential Profile

• Hands-on platform engineering experience: You have 7+ years of experience with platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Linux proficiency: Advanced skills in system administration, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls), and security fundamentals. Comfortable troubleshooting complex issues across the stack.
• Container technologies expertise: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, cluster operations, networking, troubleshooting. Familiarity with HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
• On-prem / bare-metal experience: Comfortable operating on-prem infrastructure (i.e. outside of public cloud), bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle, storage, and datacenter operations.
• Strong scripting and programming skills: Intermediate-to-advanced Bash proficiency and intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python or Go. Ability to build production-quality tooling and automation.
• Nice to have: Prior experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount. Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet), load balancers (HAProxy, Nginx, etc) and infrastructure-as-code at scale.

This role's annual base salary range is $180,000-243,000, plus RSUs.