Infrastructure Engineer (RDS)

Join Adyen, a leading global payment company, as an Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will help shape the resilience, performance, and developer experience of Adyen's database platform. You will build the internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery are baked into the design. You will also investigate complex performance bottlenecks and build tooling that abstracts the complexity of large-scale stateful systems. This position offers a range of benefits, including a global exchange program, weekly happy hour, delicious healthy lunches, and work from home opportunities.

• Construire l'offre de base de données en tant que service (DBaaS) interne, y compris l'automatisation du cycle de vie d'une base de données.
• Assurer la haute disponibilité et la récupération après sinistre dans la conception, en résolvant des problèmes complexes liés à la haute disponibilité régionale.
• Participer à la rotation d'appel, non seulement pour résoudre les problèmes, mais aussi pour apprendre d'eux et réduire le travail.
• Problem Solver: You are proactive. You prefer performing root-cause analysis and building permanent fixes over applying temporary patches
• A Database Enthusiast: You understand the operational challenges of running databases (PostgreSQL, or similar) at scale
• A Software Engineer: You are proficient in Go or Python. You don’t just write scripts, you write clean, testable, maintainable code to build infrastructure automation and internal tools
• Collaborative: You can communicate complex infrastructure concepts to application engineers and work closely with Compute, Networking, and Storage teams
• A Systems Thinker: You have a deep understanding of Linux (networking, file systems, kernel tuning) and distributed systems principles. You understand what happens when a stateful service fails in a distributed environment
• Experience building Operators or custom controllers for Kubernetes
• Experience using OpenStack or managing server fleets
• Interest on of PostgreSQL internals
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Temporal, Ansible, Puppet) and Secret Management (Vault)
• Experience with observability at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)