Software Engineer

Summary

Join Adyen as a Software Engineer (Distributed Data Stores) to develop, optimize, and scale distributed data systems that power our core services. Collaborate with engineers across teams to manage and enhance distributed data stores like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis.

Requirements

• Strong experience working with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies
• Advanced knowledge of Java, with hands-on experience in writing scalable and high-performing code for distributed systems
• Familiar with partitioning, replication, consistency models, and CAP theorem. Experience in designing data distribution strategies like sharding and consistent hashing
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments with distributed systems
• Proactive problem solver, willing to take ownership of challenges. A team player with a strong desire to learn and improve continuously

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize distributed data stores to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
• Develop and implement data partitioning, clustering, and sharding strategies for large-scale global systems
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of distributed systems
• Write efficient Java code to interact with various distributed databases and optimize performance
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and work on high-priority systems to ensure availability in production environments

Benefits

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