As a Senior Observability Infrastructure Engineer at Adyen, you will join the Platform Engineering team to build and maintain observability pillars on-premise and in Kubernetes environments. Your daily tasks include designing next-generation logging and metrics systems, managing over 1,500 servers across bare-metal and Kubernetes setups, and automating operational tasks with Go or Python to reduce manual intervention. You will optimize performance for high-volume data streams by tuning Elasticsearch clusters and optimizing Prometheus storage while ensuring regulatory compliance in different regions. Additionally, you will participate in on-call rotations but focus primarily on engineering solutions that prevent alerts from firing, upgrade the stack to the latest versions, and enhance self-service capabilities through automated guardrails and quota management. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with observability stacks like Elasticsearch, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana Tempo, along with deep Linux knowledge and hands-on Kubernetes expertise.
Skills
Kubernetes
Elasticsearch
Prometheus
VictoriaMetrics
Grafana Tempo
Go
Python
Linux
kubectl
OpenTelemetry
CI/CD
Terraform
Docker
Ansible
Bash
Git
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
JSON
YAML
What you'll do
Design and implement the future architecture of logging and metrics systems.
Manage lifecycle of over 1,500 servers across bare-metal and Kubernetes environments.
Write code to automate operational tasks and build self-healing systems.
Optimize performance bottlenecks in distributed tracing and logging pipelines.
Participate in on-call rotations while focusing on engineering solutions for reliability.
What we're looking for
10+ years of experience in observability or relevant infrastructure domain.
Expertise in operating large-scale telemetry data stores like Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana Tempo.
Deep Linux knowledge for debugging complex networking and performance issues on bare metal and virtualized hardware.
Extensive production Kubernetes experience with hands-on troubleshooting skills using kubectl and Kubernetes primitives.
Proficient in Go or Python to build tools and automation platforms treating infrastructure as code.
Market check
Salary context
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$148,000–$228,600.
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$148,000–$228,600
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Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$142,487–$235,750
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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
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