Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, HM, 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. Engineering Lead - Adyen Cloud Services (ACS) - Platforms We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to oversee our Adyen Cloud Services (ACS) Platforms team. This team owns the lifecycle of a massive, distributed global fleet of servers and platforms across both private and public clouds. You’ll lead the work that keeps our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and secure as it supports critical banking platforms and high-volume transaction processing, targeting 99.999% availability across hybrid and on-prem ecosystems. In this role, you’ll partner closely with internal stakeholders to manage a bimodal engineering strategy: maintaining stability and migrating bare-metal platforms while driving the adoption of state-of-the-art OpenStack and public cloud solutions. You will champion a "Platform as a Product" mindset, driving standardization across configuration systems, and ensuring we are continuously prepared for scale through a "Build for All" philosophy that rejects one-off customizations. What you'll do You will hyper-focus on your customer needs: by creating and managing a platform that will be consumed as a product. Lead and grow a high-performing global team: You will directly manage distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones (Amsterdam, US, APAC), ensuring a unified engineering culture and seamless collaboration. You will lead large cross-functional "Squads," ensuring architectural coherence while fostering team independence and autonomy. Bring structure and process to execution: You will introduce and refine operational processes to achieve excellent levels of availability (99.999%) even during peak events. This involves managing multiple configuration systems, driving standardization to reduce regulatory risk, and overseeing high-stake vendor relationships and contractual terms. Foster a culture of operational excellence: You will instill a culture where engineers own production, on-call rotations, and incident response. You will ensure technical decisions utilize an open-source first approach, capable of driving code changes in critical environments rather than relying on a separate NOC. Scale for massive growth: You will guide the team to address key challenges related to managing large global platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack) and public cloud adoption. This includes driving projects to migrate from legacy systems to cloud-native setups and managing persistent connections in hostile network environments (e.g., traversing restrictive corporate firewalls). Integrate security and best practices: You will be responsible for ensuring security-first mindsets are integrated into the platform, utilizing attestation and integrity monitoring to prevent tampering. You will offer a "golden-path" for standardization that benefits all customers, generalizing specific requests into platform-wide capabilities. Scale AI practices in the platforms group: bring not only productivity improvements in ways of working but also make AI an integral part of the platform, improving resilience metrics and platform uptime. Who You Are Experienced engineering leader: You have a proven track record of overseeing the lifecycle of large, distributed global platform. You are comfortable navigating a flat structure where "winning is more important than ego," leading via influence and technical comp ... (truncated, view full listing at source)