Jobs / engineering
Staff Engineer - Observability
Adyen · Amsterdam
IND sponsor
What you will do
- Drive Strategic Architecture: Architect and execute the technical strategy for our unified, global observability platform, aligning long-term product vision with resilient, highly scalable engineering designs.
- Scale the Data Foundation: Lead the architectural revamp of our petabyte-scale search, logging, and metrics systems. You will guide the transition from legacy, over-extended datastores to highly optimized, regionalized, and multi-tenant telemetry pipelines.
- Enable Intelligent Observability: Architect the APIs, secure interfaces, and integration protocols that connect our unified data foundation to autonomous AI agents, enabling real-time diagnostics and conversational query tools.
- Establish Resilient Topologies: Deconstruct monolithic monitoring setups into isolated, high-availability regional architectures to minimize blast radiuses and ensure global operational stability.
- Simplify Developer Experience: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design self-service developer tooling, leveraging GitOps-driven configuration models, automated schema enforcement, and intuitive quota and retention management.
- Technical Leadership & Guidance: Provide high-level technical direction across the observability domain, fostering engineering excellence, championing robust design reviews, and guiding engineers through complex distributed systems challenges.
- Advocate Company-Wide: Act as a technical advocate for the domain, partnering with engineering groups across Adyen to align telemetry capabilities with broader organizational needs, build and drive the adoption of developer-facing tools, and promote modern observability standards.