Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What’s Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking a Kafka DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripting, automation, and pipeline development. You’ll be hands-on with day-to-day Kafka operations, reliability, tuning, and high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on-prem and in AWS Cloud. Beyond keeping the lights on, you’ll play a key role in building the data pipelines—of which Kafka is a core component—that power Verifone’s new AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives. You’ll also be part of an active effort to migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes, giving you hands-on experience with a meaningful infrastructure modernization project. The technology footprint is broad: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and more—so you’ll grow well beyond a single-technology niche.

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Operations & Reliability

• Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters (including MSK), Kafka Connect ecosystem, and KSQL for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging and event streaming pipelines.
• Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Handle day-to-day operational tasks including offset management, lag monitoring, consumer group management, and cluster rebalancing.
• Perform routine cluster maintenance: upgrades, configuration changes, scaling, and health checks.

Scripting, Automation & DevOps

• Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for patching automation.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with the opportunity to help migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes.

Data Pipeline Development

• Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, with Kafka as a core streaming component alongside batch and ETL processes, enabling new AI, ML, and analytics use cases.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for data flow, security, scalability, and performance.
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
• Support cloud migration tasks and assist in moving workloads between on-prem and cloud environments.

Required Qualifications / Skills

• 4+ years of overall engineering experience with 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting Kafka infrastructure in a large-scale production environment.
• Kafka Producer/Consumer microservices concepts and Kafka distributed architecture.
• Solid Linux fundamentals: networking basics, logs, system troubleshooting, process/memory, disk.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash) with a track record of reducing operational toil.
• CI/CD pipeline development and Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Cloud engineering skills, preferably AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, MSK/ElastiCache, CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics/logs/tracing concepts) and incident response practices.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (availability, consistency, partitions, backpressure).
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication.
• Flexible with regards to working shifts; on-call and weekends.

Preferred Skills (Highly Desired)

Data Engineering & Pipelines

• Data engineering skills including data analytics, data processing, ETL, and data lake technologies (batch and streaming, file formats like Parquet, table formats like Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, basic orchestration).
• Experience with AWS data tools (Athena, Glue, Iceberg, Redshift, etc.).
• Exposure to Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or similar stream processing frameworks.

Database & Caching Technologies

• Operate Redis deployments for caching, ephemeral state, queues/streams, and rate limiting use cases.
• Relational DB experience: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (indexing basics, vacuum/analyze, query plans, replication fundamentals).
• MongoDB operational familiarity (replica sets, elections, oplog basics, backup/restore).

Infrastructure & Security

• Container/Kubernetes familiarity (deployments, stateful workloads, storage classes).
• On-prem experience (VMware/KVM, storage, networking).
• Security fundamentals: least privilege, secrets management, encryption-in-transit/at-rest concepts.
• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards.

What We Offer

• Direct impact on Verifone’s global payment infrastructure—your work keeps billions of transactions flowing reliably every year.
• Ground-floor involvement in building the data pipelines that will drive Verifone’s AI, machine learning, and analytics strategy.
• Hands-on participation in a Kafka-to-Kubernetes migration—a resume-building modernization project from day one.
• Multi-technology exposure—Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake—so you grow as a well-rounded platform engineer, not a single-tool specialist.
• Mentorship from senior engineers and Kafka architects with deep production experience.
• Clear career progression path from mid-level to senior and lead engineer.
• Funded certification paths—Confluent (CCDAK, Certified Administrator), AWS (Solutions Architect, MSK Specialty), CKA—plus budget for courses and technical conferences.
• Hybrid/remote working flexibility with a collaborative team culture.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

The role

This role is part of the international Customer Operations group.

In this role, you will be responsible for onboarding and verifying new GoCardless customers, as well as conducting Customer Due Diligence reviews for existing clients, ensuring all processes are both compliant and customer-centric. As a senior member of the Customer Operations team, the KYC Specialist will also act as a primary escalation point for compliance-related issues, both within the team and across other departments.

Working hours

Monday - Friday, 10 am - 7 pm

We are a 24x7 operation and require our employees to demonstrate a willingness to work on some bank holidays.

What excites you 

• Reviewing Adverse Media, PEP and Sanctions screening escalations and providing detailed risk assessments and recommendations.
• Opportunities to upskill other team members, proactively share your knowledge with the team and propose process improvements.
• Supporting our Merchants during their onboarding and verification stages.
• Handle internal escalations to relevant teams, such as potential fraud, ML/TF activities, and complex cases.
• Collaborating with various teams, such as AML Financial Crime and Customer Success, to help make sure we’re creating a seamless onboarding experience for customers.
• Conducting due diligence checks on new and existing Merchants in accordance with internal and external requirements.

 What excites us  

• You are verbally fluent in English and can communicate clearly in writing to support customers via email or over the phone. 
• You have previous experience in KYC or AML. 
• Detail-oriented with the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• You care deeply about providing customers with a great experience while keeping calm under pressure.
• You're comfortable working with internal stakeholders at all levels, upholding our core product & compliance requirements with a problem-solving approach.
• Prior experience using tools like Zendesk or Looker is preferred, but not essential.
  
  

Salary range: € 1500- € 2300 (gross)

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (€ 1500- €1900 (gross)) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in the role. Offers will take into account the level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What's Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL Lead DBA who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects/ Sr. Developers and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices.

We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on prem environments, while lead the team from a technical and development perspective.

This hybrid role is open to hiring candidates located in:

• Bucharest, Romania
• London, United Kingdom
• Riga, Lativa
• Warsaw, Poland

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.

The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stake holders to understand the requirement and discuss with the new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs. 

• Design, Install, Deploy and Manage MySQL on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora.
• Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active-active cluster setup in a large scale and multi datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario
• Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms
• Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references
• Setup high availability with Master-Master/ Master-slave replication
• Maintain stable performance via server optimizations
• Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning.
• Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades
• Work with application stake holders to create effective database solutions
• Create and maintain adhoc reports
• Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks
• Support application release process, and automations
• Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills

Required Qualifications/Skills

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL
• Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, Database Upgrade and Migrations, Scripting
• Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform
• Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with a zero or very minimum application down time
• Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB
• Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent.
• Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab.
• Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management skills.

Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory)

• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards
• ITIL environment experience
• Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, analytics.
• Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.
• Experience and knowledge with NoSQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL, etc.
• Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Our company, Wolt License Services (WLS), is a dynamic organization specializing in payment and financial services for our parent company Wolt, a prominent platform marketplace, and Wolt’s customers. WLS currently manages all merchant payment flows across 22 markets, ensuring strict adherence to regulatory requirements, including AML, safeguarding customer funds, and maintaining robust internal controls. As a licensed and supervised payment and e-money institution, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and efficiency in our operations.

As we continue to expand our financial services and drive innovation, we are seeking to strengthen our regulatory compliance capabilities by recruiting a highly skilled and experienced KYC/B Lead to join our 1LoD team. The KYC/B Lead will be responsible for the implementation of a comprehensive business and personal customer onboarding procedures and supporting in ensuring the institution's compliance with AML regulations and FIN-FSA guidelines on customer due diligence. This role requires a deep understanding of regulatory standards, together with knowledge around market best practices for CDD in a fintech and effective communication with key stakeholders across the DoorDash group of companies. The role will report to the Head of Financial Crime Prevention.

What you'll be doing

• Managing activities related to customer due diligence for business and personal customers, including: onboarding, ongoing and enhanced due diligence, customer risk scoring, and management of vendors, who are providing necessary technical capabilities for CDD.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for KYC and KYB, leading relevant policy implementations and control designs, monitoring industry best practices developments across EU/EEA and supporting relevant tooling enhancement developments and  implementations.
• Providing functional guidance to relevant operational teams, including training, clear instructions, and oversight; fostering a strong compliance culture and driving continuous improvements through daily support and awareness programs.
• Maintaining full oversight of the customer risk landscape and CDD lifecycles, ensuring all customers are onboarded in a compliant manner and stay compliant throughout their lifecycle. 
• Supporting in the preparations of regular reports to Senior Management on the status of CDD activities, their risks, compliance, and performance metrics.
• Acting as the primary escalation point and bridge between WLS and its customer onboarding operational teams, fostering strong internal cooperation and managing operational teams responses during incidents.

Our humble expectations

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Law, Finance or a related field.
• 6+ years in Financial Crime Prevention within financial services, ideally in a Payment or E-Money Institution or marketplace/payment platform, with proven expertise in framework design, control ownership and regulatory engagement.
• Strong understanding of AML/CFT regulations, EU/EEA regulatory frameworks (e.g., Payment Services Directive 2 and the E-Money Directive) and best practices for customer due diligence.
• Experience developing technical capabilities and procedures for customer onboarding, overall customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence. 
• Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment while keeping the relevant stakeholders aligned.
• Experience working with operations, product, or engineering teams to launch new products or enter new markets is highly advantageous.

Next Steps

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going! 

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience and qualifications. Please note, that the starting pay may vary if the candidate does not fully meet the expectations as outlined in this job posting. 

The salary below is the monthly salary range for this position. 

To learn more about our benefits, please do not hesitate to bring this up with our Talent Acquisition Partner!

Poland Pay Range:

 19274 PLN - 24092 PLN 

The role

Reporting to the Director of People Operations, Reward and People Partnering, we are seeking an experienced People Operations Manager to join us and hit the ground running! You will oversee our core people operations team based in Riga and Lisbon, focusing on employee lifecycle processes, data, compliance and internal mobility & immigration. You will play a pivotal role in enabling our HR operating model which centres around people partnering, ensuring seamless employee experiences, operational excellence, and strategic HR delivery across our global locations. This is an opportunity to bring fresh thinking to how we operate and partner closely with our People Partners, Finance, Talent Acquisition and wider HR team to ensure we drive excellence across the People function. 

What excites you 

• Employee Lifecycle Ownership: You will own, manage and optimise end-to-end People lifecycle processes from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between, ensuring seamless and positive experiences for employees at every stage.
• Compliance & Risk Management: You will ensure compliance with local employment laws and regulations across all regions, coordinating audits and compliance reviews related to People operations.
• Scalable Process Design: You will develop and implement scalable People operations processes that support our multi-hub strategy as we continue to grow into new locations, driving ongoing process improvement and manager self-serve capability.
• HR Systems & Data: You will oversee our HR system (Hibob) to optimise functionality and data quality, maintaining robust data privacy, confidentiality and security standards, and using HR analytics to inform decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
• Finance & Payroll Partnership: You will partner closely with Finance and Payroll to drive improvements across pay-related processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency at every step.
• Team Leadership: You will lead and manage the People Operations team based in Latvia and Portugal, building an inclusive high-performance team that puts the employee experience at the centre of everything.
• Documentation & Governance: You will ensure documentation is in place for all People Operations processes and changes, driving continuous improvement across internal workflows to ensure they are scalable, efficient and support positive employee experiences.

What excites us

• People Operations Expertise: Proven experience in a senior People Operations or HR Operations role, with a strong track record of owning and improving end-to-end HR processes in a global, multi-site environment.
• Operational Excellence Mindset: A natural process improver who loves to find smarter ways of working — someone who can balance attention to detail with a drive for efficiency and scale.
• Strong Data & Systems Acumen: Experience managing and optimising HRIS platforms (ideally Hibob), with the ability to use HR data and analytics to drive decisions and ensure data integrity.
• Compliance Confidence: Solid knowledge of employment law and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions, with experience coordinating audits and ensuring local compliance.
• Collaborative Leader: A genuine team player who builds strong relationships across People, Finance, Talent Acquisition and the wider business, and inspires their team to deliver excellent employee experiences.
• Immigration & Mobility Experience: Familiarity with internal mobility and immigration processes is a plus, particularly in a multi-hub context.

Base salary range: € 3300- € 5000 (gross).

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (€ 3300 - € 4150 gross) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.