Engineering Manager, Developer Platform & Observability - Adyen

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US Posted 55 days ago $215,000–$320,000 / year
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TL;DR

As an Engineering Manager at Adyen’s Developer Platform & Observability team, you will lead a full-stack engineering team responsible for building and maintaining real-time observability tools that provide developers with critical insights into their integrations. Your daily tasks include participating in architectural designs and code reviews to ensure the data tech stack (Kafka/Elasticsearch) delivers near-real-time insights at scale, overseeing systems like PostgreSQL and Kafka, and transforming raw data into actionable guidance for partners. You will also coach and mentor a high-performing team of backend and frontend engineers while maintaining a strong product mindset focused on customer-centric observability. The ideal candidate has deep experience with Java, SQL, and distributed systems, along with a proven track record in building developer-facing tools or high-traffic API products. This role requires expertise in large-scale system design but prioritizes user-friendly solutions over technical complexity for its own sake.

Skills

PostgreSQL Kafka Elasticsearch Java SQL Docker CI/CD Python JavaScript React Node.js AWS Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Redis GraphQL

What you'll do

  • Maintain a strong product mindset to build "Customer-Centric Observability" tools.
  • Oversee architectural designs and code reviews for data tech stack (Kafka/Elasticsearch).
  • Lead team to ship functionalities within weeks, impacting millions of transactions globally.
  • Coach and mentor high-performing teams of Backend and Frontend engineers.
  • Ensure near real-time insights at scale (~3.5 billion events weekly) in API Logs.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
  • 3+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams.
  • Proven track record in building developer-facing tools and observability platforms.
  • Deep comfort with Java, SQL, and distributed systems.
  • Experience in payments or building external-facing developer consoles/dashboards.
  • Ability to coach and mentor engineers while maintaining technical literacy.

Market check

Salary context

This $215,000–$320,000 range sits above 85% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$148,500–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$243,587

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Ayden

Adyen is a global payments platform that provides end-to-end payment processing, merchant acquiring, and issuing solutions to large global companies, enabling them to accept payments anywhere in the world. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Ayden currently has 107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,000–$243,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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