Platform Engineer, Adyen
Cassandra and NoSQL
3+ days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in administering and scaling Cassandra clusters in a production environment, with a solid understanding of distributed database principles
- In-depth knowledge of Cassandra architecture, including data replication, sharding, consistency levels, and compaction strategies. Familiarity with Cassandra-specific tools and extensions
- Proficient in Java, with experience in building and maintaining tools and libraries for database management. Familiar with Linux systems and automation tools such as Ansible/Puppet
- Skilled in applying Software Engineering principles to database operations. Capable of writing clean, efficient code for automating tasks, managing infrastructure, and optimizing performance
- Proven track record of managing large-scale Cassandra deployments, including performance tuning, scaling, and ensuring high availability in a 24/7 environment
- Adept at diagnosing complex issues, with a proactive approach to preventing downtime and ensuring the integrity of the database environment
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation to provide support for production environments, with the ability to diagnose and resolve incidents in real time
- Good to have experience working with production Kubernetes environments and developing and/or configuring Kubernetes operators to automate Cassandra operations
What the job involves
- Adyen is in search of a Platform Engineer with a strong focus on Cassandra administration and scaling to join our Platform Engineering team in Amsterdam
- Our on-premise platforms are experiencing rapid growth, making your role crucial in the team
- In this role, you will work at the intersection of software engineering and database administration, focusing on the scalability, performance, and reliability of our Cassandra clusters
- You will collaborate with other platform engineers and developers across various business units, tackling the unique challenges that come with operating Cassandra at scale
- We’re looking for an individual ready to bring deep technical expertise and innovative solutions to help optimize and expand our database infrastructure
- Cassandra Administration: Manage and maintain our Cassandra clusters, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance
- Scaling and Performance Optimization: Design and implement strategies to scale Cassandra to meet the demands of a rapidly growing platform. Optimize read and write throughput, tune for low-latency operations, and ensure efficient use of resources
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Set up monitoring and alerting for Cassandra clusters. Diagnose and resolve issues related to performance, capacity, and consistency
- Automation and Tooling: Develop and maintain Java-based tools and libraries for managing Cassandra, automating routine tasks, and ensuring consistent deployment practices
- Data Modeling and Architecture: Collaborate with developers to design efficient data models and schemas optimized for Cassandra, ensuring alignment with application requirements and performance goals
- Capacity Planning: Anticipate future growth and plan for capacity needs, including storage, throughput, and replication strategies
Application process
- 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
- Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$55.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $323.6m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
- We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
- We launch fast and iterate
- Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
- We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
- We talk straight without being rude
- We include different people to sharpen our ideas
- We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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