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.
Why you should join the Adyen Storage Team
This team is part of our Platform Engineering Solution in Amsterdam. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem.
As a storage engineer of our Storage team in Chicago, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions.This role involves the end-to-end management of our organization's data storage infrastructure. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.
Sounds exciting? Keep reading!
What You’ll Do:
- Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs.
- Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
- Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
- Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems.
- Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards.
- Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
- Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools.
Who You Are:
- 3–5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph)
- Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
- You have a strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies
- Proficiency in shell scripting; You have Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM.
- You have familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
- Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.)
Ready to meet us?
If you are excited about this role, apply by clicking the link below. We can’t wait to meet you!
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.
The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage.
- Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC).
- Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies.
- Proficiency in shell scripting; Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge.
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM.
- Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
- Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix).
What the Team is Saying
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Adyen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests a flexible monthly stipend (Adyen+) enables employees to direct funds toward needs like childcare, language courses, or home‑office setups. This personalization is highlighted consistently across locations.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests daily in‑office lunches, stocked kitchens, and amenities such as an in‑house barista create a strong on‑site experience. Commuter benefits, fitness stipends, and other office perks further support day‑to‑day wellbeing.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health coverage is offered, alongside disability and life insurance. Core health benefits are positioned as part of a global essentials package.
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What We Do
Adyen (ADYEN:AMS) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft.
Why Work With Us
At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We started with payments, at a time when providers offered services based on a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. Ambition demanded more. So we set off to build a financial technology platform for the modern era, entirely in-house, from the ground up.
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We believe that in-person collaboration is the best route to building genuine connection. We’re an office-first company that offers flexibility when needed. We trust our team to act with autonomy and make good choices.
