Staff Engineer - Data Foundations

What you will do

• Build greenfield. The mandate, the architecture and the standards are being written now. You help write them.
• Design the foundation. Set the target architecture for shared data models, data contracts and the semantic layer that every domain builds on.
• Give every metric one clear meaning. Work with domain teams so each core metric is defined once and owned by the domain that creates it. Variants get their own names.
• Make data contracts the norm. Agree contracts between producers and consumers, with owners, versions and automatic checks. Consumers are never surprised.
• Build lineage in from the start. Anyone can trace a figure to its source without asking the engineer who built the pipeline.
• Help teams ship data products. Guide domain teams to publish datasets with a clear owner, schema and service level. They own the product. You own the standard.
• Stay hands-on. Build prototypes, review designs and solve hard problems in the data stack.
• Partner across Adyen. Product, Finance, Compliance, Platform Engineering and domain leads. Win the argument with data and a working prototype.
• Grow other engineers. Mentor engineers in Data Foundations and in the domains. Help them solve problems with their own ideas, and raise the bar in design reviews.

Who you are

• You have 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture, and you have worked at Staff scope. You have set direction for more than one team, and you are still hands on.
• You pick your own problems. You see what needs to change and drive it to done without being told.
• You have designed shared data models, data contracts or semantic layers that many teams build on, and you can defend the trade-offs.
• You have changed what other teams built without any authority over them. You did it with data, prototypes and trust.
• You explain hard ideas in plain words to engineers, finance people and executives. You write clearly.
• You work well with Engineering, Product, Finance, Compliance and other stakeholders, across time zones.

This role's annual base salary range is $258–$367k, plus RSUs. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.