Platform Engineer (Distributed Data Stores)

Join Adyen, a leading global payment company, as a Platform Engineer specializing in distributed data stores. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and scaling our core services' distributed data systems. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, database administration, and infrastructure operations, collaborating with engineers across teams to manage and enhance data stores such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis. You will also help design partitioning and clustering strategies, improve system performance, and ensure high availability for globally distributed services.

• Develop, optimize, and scale distributed data systems that power core services.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to manage and enhance distributed data stores such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Design, build, and optimize distributed data stores to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability.

• Familiar with partitioning, replication, consistency models, and CAP theorem. Familiar with data distribution strategies like sharding and consistent hashing
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments with distributed systems
• Solid programming experience with Python or Go, with a track record of building reliable infrastructure automation and developer tooling
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation once or twice a month, responding to and resolving urgent issues to maintain system stability and minimize downtime
• Develop and maintain tools and libraries for managing different distributed data stores, automating routine tasks, and ensuring consistent deployment practices
• You are a proactive problem solver, willing to take ownership of challenges. A team player with a strong desire to learn and improve continuously
• Experience working with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis, Clickhouse, or similar technologies