Adyen · Chicago; San Francisco
Platform Monitoring & Incident Engineer
This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the fina...
This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft -
making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure
they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and
solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Platform Monitoring Engineer / Incident Manager
A team within Engineering under the Platform Excellence pillar exhibits an unwavering attention to detail and a deep understanding
of the platform wide monitoring implications to all merchants.
In this role, you will be on-call monitoring platform performance, coordinating and commanding incidents, communicating with our
customers, working on monitoring frameworks, providing feedback to product engineering teams to improve the reliability of the
platform. You will initiate and lead initiatives across our platform offerings prioritizing merchant impact to proactively detect
any issues, inform merchants quickly, and increase the reliability of our platform.
What you’ll do
- On-call: The team operates in a follow the sun model, where you will be participating in the NORAM shift (shifts: 9.00AM -
6.00PM PDT, 11.00-8.00PM CDT). Observe platform and merchant performance and detect any issues proactively to mitigate risks
in partnership with Engineering teams.
- Incident Management: Coordinate the mitigation, recovery, and resolution of high-impact incidents, ensuring a rapid and
effective response across teams. Represent the customer perspective during incidents, maintaining a strong customer-centric
approach.
- Communication: Be an expert in communicating with merchants real time during an incident and present the most accurate and
updated information to keep them informed. Escalate critical incidents when needed and provide structured communication to
senior management.
- Problem Management: Go beyond reactive incident response by analyzing incident trends to identify recurring issues and systemic
weaknesses. Partner with engineering and product teams to advocate for long-term fixes over repeated short-term patches.
- Working together with Operations, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate, grow, and continuously improve our monitoring
strategy and increase our reliability.
- Investigate alerts and provide feedback to engineering teams to build effective logging and alerts across the platform
architecture.
- Mitigate merchant impact risk by actioning on alerts in partnership with Engineering teams, and contribute to the monitoring
playbook by documenting your learnings.
- Improve operations by leading/project managing initiatives and, or tools—development of automation for effective monitoring. .
- Focus on ruthlessly prioritizing, automating, and scaling every aspect of our detection capabilities.
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of experience with incident management, problem management, incident client communication, and
platform monitoring operations.
- You have experience with problem management practices - identifying trends across incidents, conducting root cause
investigations and driving preventative action.
- You have solid communication skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships throughout the organization, able
to translate technical situations clearly and concisely to a diverse audience via data-visualizing dashboards and written
documents.
- You're willing to participate in the on-call rotation and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- You have experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, etc.
- You have experience with observability platforms like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk.
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex systems and spot the root cause
of issues.
- You thrive in an environment where collaboration is crucial and where a global approach is key for are you successful
implementation of processes and projects
- You have a passion for defining and standardizing processes to drive strategic improvement and able to translate complex
technical concepts with ease for all non technical audiences
- You have a natural ability for handling complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously
- You're a strong team player and thrive in a dynamic environment.
- Work schedule: The shifts are from 9.00AM - 6.00PM PDT or 11.00AM - 8.00PM CDT with a 6-day workweek at least twice a month
(Sunday–Friday or Monday–Saturday).
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping
us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to
join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at
Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.
Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What’s next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application
within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role.
Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin,
religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic
information, marital status or any legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This role is based out of our San Francisco or Chicago office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration;
we do not offer remote-only roles.
The annual base salary range for this role is $100,000-$154,500; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click
here.
SAN FRANCISCO
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records.
Role
Platform Monitoring & Incident Engineer
Category
Kundtjänstpersonal
Locations
Published
July 13
Deadline
August 15