# Staff Engineer - Data Foundations at Adyen

- Company: Adyen
- What the company does: Run payments, manage your data, and offer financial products in one platform. Adyen is purpose-built for the world. Backed by Index and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://adyen.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8300952?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adyen-staff-engineer-data-foundations/

## About the role

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global 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. We create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by a culture that encourages ownership and provides the support to truly own your career. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Development

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adyen-staff-engineer-data-foundations/