Engineering Manager, Developer Platform & Observability - Adyen

Ayden

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San Francisco, CA Posted 27 days ago $215,000–$320,000 / year
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TL;DR

As the Engineering Manager for Developer Platform & Observability at Adyen, you will lead a full-stack team responsible for building and maintaining real-time observability tools that provide developers with critical insights into their integrations. Your day-to-day involves participating in architectural designs and code reviews to ensure near-real-time data delivery using technologies like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, while also coaching and mentoring your team of backend and frontend engineers. You will focus on developing customer-centric observability solutions that help developers understand why payments fail or how to optimize their integrations, all while maintaining a strong product mindset and adhering to best engineering practices. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in building developer-facing tools and high-traffic API products, along with deep expertise in Java, SQL, and distributed systems, and a proven ability to manage high-performing teams while staying technically hands-on.

Skills

PostgreSQL Kafka Elasticsearch Java SQL Docker CI/CD Python JavaScript React Node.js AWS GitHub GitLab Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes

What you'll do

  • Maintain a strong product mindset to build "Customer-Centric Observability" tools.
  • Oversee architectural designs and code reviews for high-scale reliability systems.
  • Lead the team to ship functionalities within weeks, impacting millions of transactions globally.
  • Coach and mentor a full-stack engineering team of Backend and Frontend developers.
  • Ensure near real-time insights at scale using data tech stack like Kafka/Elasticsearch.

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 maintain technical literacy while leading engineering teams.

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–$244,187

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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