Senior Platform Engineer - Container Services

Adyen•San Francisco, CA

8d•$198,000 - $293,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Adyen is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its Container Services team in San Francisco. The team owns and operates the core container orchestration infrastructure that underpins Adyen’s global payment platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating critical infrastructure systems, improving automation and reliability, and helping scale the platform globally. The engineer will work on Kubernetes and supporting infrastructure across Adyen’s global private cloud, develop automation and self-service tooling, and own the availability and performance of critical platform systems. The position participates in on-call rotations and incident response, collaborates with platform engineers in Chicago as part of a global team operating infrastructure across regions and datacenters, and contributes to architecture, technology evaluation, modernization, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization. The role is based in Adyen’s San Francisco office. Adyen is office-first and expects employees to work in the office at least three days a week on average. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring new visa sponsorship; visa transfers may be supported, but H-1B CAP applications will not be sponsored.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
Advanced Linux system administration skills and knowledge of networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and firewalls, as well as security fundamentals.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, including cluster operations, networking, and troubleshooting.
Experience operating on-premises infrastructure, including bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle, storage, and datacenter operations.
Intermediate-to-advanced Bash proficiency.
Intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python or Go, with the ability to build production-quality tooling and automation.
Authorization to work in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform, Consul, Nomad, and Vault.
Familiarity with GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
Experience in FinTech or regulated industries where reliability and security are paramount.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
Experience with load balancers such as HAProxy or Nginx.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code at scale.

Responsibilities

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