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Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.\nWe operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.\nWe offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.\nOur beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do - and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.\nJob Summary:\nWhat do you need to know about the roleThis is an incident command role. You'll direct application and infrastructure teams during incidents making work assignments, prioritizing troubleshooting paths, and authorizing critical actions like rollbacks and regional failovers. You need the technical depth to rapidly read Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes manifests, and CI/CD configurations to make informed decisions under pressure.\nMeet Our Team\nThe Site Health Engineering (Command Center) team serves as the operational and technical authority during PayPal's most critical incidents. We are a team of experienced infrastructure and reliability professionals who blend deep technical expertise with sound judgment under pressure, directing cross-functional engineering efforts across PayPal's core platforms and family of brands, including Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, and Braintree.\nJob Description:\nEssential Responsibilities:\nDelivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.\nAdvises immediate management on project-level issues\nGuides junior engineers\nOperates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices\nApplies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions\nMinimum Qualifications:\n3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.\nAdditional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:\nYour way to Impact\nRather than building or maintaining infrastructure day-to-day, our team is entrusted with a broader mandate: safeguarding the reliability, resiliency, and availability of some of the world's most heavily trafficked financial platforms. We hold final decision-making authority during high-severity incidents, partner closely with executive leadership on post-incident learnings, and drive the tooling and processes that continuously strengthen our incident response capabilities.\nYou'll also regularly interface with executive leadership during critical incidents and post-mortems, and drive implementation of tooling that advances the Command Center's capabilities.\nSite Resiliency & Infrastructure Management\nProactively identify and address vulnerabilities in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises infrastructure\n\nReview Infrastructure as Code changes for reliability risks as part of change approval process\n\nIdentify architectural anti-patterns in Kubernetes deployments and cloud migrations\n\nConduct regular disaster recovery drills and readiness tests before major events (Thanksgiving, Cyber 5, peak shopping seasons)\n\nParticipate in situation room activities for new product rollouts\n\nDrive site resilience projects to enhance system reliability and uptime\n\nProactively identify and address vulnerabilities in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises infrastructure\n\nImplement automated monitoring solutions to detect single points of failure\n\nLead new datacenter and CDN certification initiatives\n\nConduct regular disaster recovery drills and readiness tests before major events (Thanksgiving, Cyber 5, peak shopping seasons)\n\nParticipate in situation room activities for new product rollouts\n\nDrive site resilience projects to enhance system reliability and uptime\n\nIncident Management & Response\nAct as incident commander with final decision authority -- directing engineering teams, authorizing rollbacks, and commanding regional failovers\n\nDirect application and infrastructure teams during incidents by making work assignments and prioritizing troubleshooting paths\n\nRapidly assess incidents by reading Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Kubernetes manifests, and CI/CD configurations\n\nGive final authorization for critical actions including production rollbacks, regional failovers, and emergency changes\n\nInterface with executive leadership during critical incidents and post-mortems to provide technical guidance and impact assessments\n\nIdentify when incidents stem from teams deviating from established cloud-native patterns\n\nCommand cross-functional teams during high-severity incidents affecting PayPal core and brand platforms (Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, Braintree)\n\nLead blameless postmortem sessions and contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes\n\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives based on incident learningsServe as the primary technical escalation point during critical incidents\n\nAccelerate incident response times through standardized playbooks and automated workflows\n\nCoordinate cross-functional teams during high-severity incidents affecting PayPal core and brand platforms (Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, Braintree)\n\nLead blameless postmortem sessions and contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes\n\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives based on incident learnings\n\nManage multiple concurrent incidents during peak periods with efficiency and precision\n\nChange Management & Risk Mitigation\nServe as final approver for emergency changes and provide expert guidance on all production changes\n\nAct as advisor and technical authority during change approval processes, identifying potential reliability risks\n\nProvide training and guidance to engineering teams on change management best practices\n\nMaintain change audit documentation and compliance requirements\n\nReview and approve changes to production systems, ensuring comprehensive risk assessment\n\nAutomate change validation and rollback procedures to minimize service disruptions\n\nStreamline change management processes to reduce manual errors and bottlenecks\n\nProvide training and guidance to engineering teams on change management best practices\n\nMaintain change audit documentation and compliance requirements\n\nCloud Expertise & Technical Leadership\nLeverage deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to drive incident resolution\n\nSupport Braintree and Venmo cloud infrastructure operations\n\nGuide teams toward solutions by providing architectural direction during incidents\n\nStay current with emerging cloud technologies and best practices\n\nMentor team members on cloud technologies and incident management techniques\n\nCloud Expertise & Technical Leadership\nImplement automation, dashboards, and tooling to enhance the team's incident response capabilities\n\nBuild runbooks and playbooks for cloud-native incident scenarios\n\nDevelop internal tools and scripts to improve TDO operational efficiency\n\nDrive projects that advance the Command Center's operational capabilities\n\nIn your day-to-day role you will be responsible for: \n3days-4daysalternating 12-hour shift pattern.\n\nTake ownership of system performance monitoring, identify inefficiencies, and lead initiatives to improve the overall availability and reliability of digital platforms and applications.\n\nLead and manage the response to complex, high-priority incidents, ensuring prompt resolution and a thorough root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.\n\nDesign and implement advanced automation frameworks to improve operational efficiency, streamline processes, and reduce human error.\n\nLead reliability-focused initiatives, ensuring systems are highly available, resilient, and scalable, and promote best practices across engineering teams.\n\nEnhance the monitoring infrastructure by identifying key metrics, optimizing alerting, and improving system observability to ensure the reliability of large-scale systems.\n\nForecast resource requirements and lead capacity planning activities to ensure systems can scale effectively to meet growing user demand.\n\nEnsure robust disaster recovery strategies are in place 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