Senior Platform Engineer - Container Services

Adyen•San Francisco, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Adyen is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for its Container Services team in San Francisco. The team owns and operates Adyen’s core container orchestration infrastructure, which supports its global payments platform. The engineer will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure systems, improve automation and reliability, and help scale the platform globally. The role includes operating Kubernetes and supporting infrastructure across Adyen’s global private cloud, maintaining critical systems, and collaborating with platform engineers in Chicago as part of a team operating infrastructure around the clock across multiple regions and datacenters. This position is based in the San Francisco office. Adyen expects employees to work in the office at least three days per week on average.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
Advanced Linux system administration skills, including networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and firewalls) and security fundamentals.
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across the stack.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, including cluster operations, networking, and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Nomad, and Vault, and with GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
Experience operating on-premises infrastructure outside public cloud, including bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle, storage, and datacenter operations.
Intermediate-to-advanced Bash skills and intermediate-to-advanced Python or Go skills.
Ability to build production-quality tooling and automation.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring new visa sponsorship. Adyen can support visa transfers but will not sponsor H-1B cap applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet, load balancers such as HAProxy or Nginx, and infrastructure-as-code at scale.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes container orchestration and supporting infrastructure across the global private cloud.
Develop tools and automation for provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling engineering self-service and reducing manual effort.
Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems.
Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response and postmortem processes to improve operational reliability.
Collaborate with platform engineers in Chicago as part of a global team operating infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters.
Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate technologies, and help drive platform modernization, including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization.