Senior Development Tooling Engineer

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.

Senior Development Tooling Engineer

Adyen is looking for a Senior Development Tooling Engineer for its Engineering Tools team in Amsterdam. The position involves working on a distributed, real-time, 24/7 system with interesting performance and security requirements. The primary function will be developing tools and applications to create a great DevEx for other Software Engineers at Adyen. You love automating processes, providing tooling and advocating development / SDLC best practices to the rest of the organization. Instead of just scripting, you will be expected to develop experiences which make the daily lives of developers a breeze. Together we will be providing an elevated SDLC experience to the rest of the organization, working closely with the teams involved in the build and release process, but also with the teams that build our underlying on-premises infrastructure, such as our Kubernetes clusters and our own private cloud.

What you’ll do

You will be working alongside a team of great engineers on tooling, software, and systems that aid us in maintaining a lean and performant SDLC for our feature teams. Examples include writing bespoke local or CI tooling, working on our software testing framework or environments, design of release pipeline and associated flows.

Who you are

• Programming Skills: 7+ years of experience in maintaining high availability in a constantly running system built in multiple languages, proficiency in either Java, Python or Golang is a must. You should also be comfortable with bash scripting.
• Linux Background: 2+ years of strong experience working with Linux, particularly in building containers in ephemeral environments.

DevEx expert: Able to design and create tools, flows, and setups that provide an amazing developer experience. Great at navigating existing stacks to find and implement improvements.

• Owner: Own projects that require coordination between teams and push them through to the end.
• Mentor: Able to upskill your peers.
• Containerization: Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Building and Automating: Proven track record in developing CI/CD tooling and applications, automating legacy processes to meet modern development standards.
• CI/CD Tools: Hands-on experience with writing and maintaining GitLab and Jenkins pipelines.
• Infrastructure as Code: At least surface knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Puppet for system configuration and automation.
• Diagnostic Skills: Capable of diagnosing problems effectively and making quick, informed decisions.

Mindset: staying composed but working with urgency during incidents, ensuring performance standards.

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.