Description
Adyen is a financial technology platform that offers payments, data, and financial products in a single solution to large customers such as Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
We are seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago. This team is responsible for owning and operating Adyen's core container orchestration infrastructure, which is the foundation of our global payment platform.
In this role, you will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure systems, drive automation and reliability improvements, and help scale Adyen's platform as we continue to grow globally.
Responsibilities:
- Build and operate core infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infrastructure across our global private cloud.
- Drive automation and reduce toil: Develop tooling and automation that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling self-service for engineering teams and reducing manual effort.
- Ensure reliability at scale: Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident response and postmortem processes that continuously improve our operational posture.
- Collaborate across teams and time zones: Work closely with platform engineers in Chicago, contributing to a global team that operates 24/7 infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters.
- Shape platform evolution: Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and help drive platform modernization initiatives , including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization.
Requirements:
- Hands-on platform engineering experience: 7+ years of experience with platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
- Linux proficiency: Advanced skills in system administration, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls), and security fundamentals.
- Container technologies expertise: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, cluster operations, networking, troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
- On-prem / bare-metal experience: Comfortable operating on-prem infrastructure, bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle, storage, and datacenter operations.
- Strong scripting and programming skills: Intermediate-to-advanced Bash proficiency and intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python or Go.
Nice to have:
- Prior experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount.
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet), load balancers (HAProxy, Nginx, etc) and infrastructure-as-code at scale.
Total rewards & compensation
The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000.
Benefits
Compensation is based on factors including qualifications, experience, and location. Total compensation package includes equity (RSUs), 401(k), health, dental, vision, and more.
In-office expectations
This role is based in our Chicago office. We're an office-first company and expect employees to work in-office at least 3 days a week on average.