Staff Engineer - Developer Experience

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.

Staff Engineer - Developer Experience

We're looking for an expert with deep knowledge in developer experience to impact and improve the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) for our engineering teams. The initial focus will be on leading cross-team projects to enhance our internal developer platform, streamline our CI/CD pipelines, and improve our observability and testing frameworks.

What you'll do

You'll be asked to both build new as-a-service offerings for our developers and improve the existing ones. This role is perfect for you if you're passionate about one or all of the following:

• Design, build, and optimize the internal developer platform to ensure a seamless and efficient experience for our software engineers.
• Focus on improving the CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and observability tools internally.
• Evolve these internal tools and platforms, with the intention of contributing to open-source projects where applicable.
• Educate and grow Adyen's internal knowledge in developer experience best practices, mentoring and coaching other engineers.
• Work closely with development teams to understand their needs and pain points, and advocate for improvements to the development process.
• Automate infrastructure and development workflows to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.

What you'll do

Must have experience in:

• Scaling and tuning CI/CD pipelines and implementing best practices.
• Building and maintaining internal developer platforms or similar self-service platforms.
• One or more of the following programming languages: Go, Python, or Java.
• Containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Team player with strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders (developers, SREs, security engineers, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments.

Nice-to-have:

• Building and maintaining developer portals (e.g., Backstage).
• Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Knowledge of security best practices in the SDLC.

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. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

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