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At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. \nFor 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. The people of Adyen 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.\nSenior Software Engineer - Platform Observability \nAdyen provides a global, unified platform with a wide variety of financial services. Observability plays a key role providing comprehensive data to a wide variety of use cases, ensuring the platform’s reliability and supporting our operations to run smoothly.\nAs part of the Observability team you will build and maintain products and services that enable engineers at Adyen to understand how their services are behaving in real-time, reliably diagnose issues and streamline data discovery through a common observability ecosystem. Between logs, metrics and traces, our platform collects and processes billions of events per day.\nWhat you will do\nAs a Software Engineer working on the observability of the platform, you will play a key role in shaping how teams work with telemetry data, identifying and advocating for best practices for building, running and maintaining observable components.\nThis includes:\nSolve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our Logging, Metrics, Traces & Alerting pipeline\nDesign and evolve APIs that will be used by other engineers in product teams, working together with them to identify pain points and opportunities.\nIdentify and tackle bottlenecks and single points of failures in the architecture aiming to improve the reliability of the observability platform and the overall user experience.\nDriving features and products idealization, implementation and adoption.\nCollaborate on planning and refinement proactively providing input whilst striving for engineering alignment, quality and reducing complexity and dependencies.\nRespond to alerts and duty responsibilities, like providing support to other engineers and troubleshooting production issues\nWhat you bring\n5+ years of experience working with highly distributed systems\nExpertise in designing and implementing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput, real-time data ingestion\nExperience improving software reliability between different categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, SLOs and incident management.\nProficiency developing and maintaining software written in Go and/or Java\nExperience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code tools(e.g: Terraform)\nSolid understanding of system design and evaluating its tradeoffs\nDemonstrated track record of leading and delivering project and features end to end\nHighly motivated to learn and continuously develop yourself\nNice to have\nObservability Stack Expertise: You have hands-on experience operating core telemetry data stores at scale e.g. Elasticsearch/Opensearch/VictoriaLogs/Clickhouse for logging, Prometheus/ VictoriaMetrics for metrics and Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing, Grafana LGTM stack, OpenTelemetry, Alertmanager\nExperience with highly available/fault tolerant, replicated data storage systems, large scale data processing systems is a strong plus\nInfrastructure and Platform Experience \nContributions to open-source observability projects\nOur Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitments\nOur 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.\nStudies 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!\nWhat's next?\nEnsuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 10 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.\nThis role is based out of our Amsterdam office. 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