Senior Product Manager, Database Platforms

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.

Senior Product Manager, Database platforms

Platform Engineering is building Platform as a Product, enabling engineers to autonomously build and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable applications with high speed and quality. At the heart of this mission is the database teams within the Shared Application Capabilities (SAC) cluster. Enabling Adyen engineers to have ready-to-use, high-quality and efficient database solutions that power our mission-critical applications. By providing scalable, reliable and self-service database platforms, we enable engineering teams to focus on delivering value to our merchants.

What you’ll do

• Own the strategy and vision for Adyen’s database platforms, ensuring they meet the needs of engineers while maintaining security, scalability, and reliability.
• Balance immediate problem-solving with long-term innovation, ensuring both urgent engineering needs and foundational platform investments are addressed.
• Define and execute a product roadmap, balancing short-term priorities with long-term investments to enhance database performance, automation and self-service capabilities together with engineering counterparts.
• Build and drive an efficient value stream with surrounding capabilities (e.g. cloud infrastructure) to create valuable solutions for our customers efficiently.  
• Act as a thought leader within Adyen, influencing engineering culture and advocating for best practices in database reliability, performance, and automation.

Why this role?

This role is ideal for a senior product manager with a strong technical background who thrives in a high-impact, engineering-first environment. You will play a critical role in shaping how Adyen engineers leverage database technologies to build world-class products efficiently and reliably. If you enjoy working at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and platform strategy, this role offers an exciting opportunity to drive meaningful change at scale.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with a track record of delivering successful outcomes in technical platforms or database-related domains.
• Strong technical fundamentals, enabling you to collaborate effectively with database engineers and infrastructure teams to shape database platforms as a product.
• Ability to make strategic trade-offs, balancing business needs, engineering priorities, and operational considerations to drive impactful database solutions.
• Growth mindset with a passion for continuously learning about database performance, automation, observability, and infrastructure scalability.
• Data-driven decision making approach, using usage insights, reliability metrics and engineering feedback to guide platform improvements.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, fostering teamwork and alignment across engineering, infrastructure and product teams.
• Experience driving adoption of platform solutions: ensuring database capabilities are intuitive, well-documented and integrated into developer workflows.

Bonus points for:

• Deep understanding of database platforms (relational and non-relational) and how to scale them for mission-critical systems.
• Background in infrastructure or application development,
• Contribution to or managing teams working on open source projects.

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.

Please note that this role is a full-time position in Amsterdam. It will require a relocation in case you live outside of the Netherlands.