Senior Software Engineer

PayPal is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform team. The role focuses on building and improving cloud and container platforms, supporting developers and operations teams, and developing automation, monitoring, and alerting for reliable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
• You will form part of a global team that will drive best practice in the PaaS/CaaS arena. Joining next generation Container platform team, opportunity to learn and improvise distributed systems
• You will adapt to new Cloud and Container Platform technologies, build and release processes, production topologies and architecture to support environmental issues, identify gaps in platform, process and work with platform team to improvise tools, process and platform
• You will be developing automations, dashboard, monitoring/alerting to help reduce TTD and TTR
• Scope could include technical lead responsibilities, troubleshooting and fixing issues as surfaces. Support developer and production operations teams to unblock them, overcome any failed customer interactions. Expectation to support 24/7/365/day on-call operations personnel
• Looking for passionate engineers with hunger to learn and adapt to technologies, use new technologies fits best to provide platform efficiency, reliability and performance

Skills

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
• Overall 5+ years development experience
• Working experience in building massively scalable high performance services
• Expertise in Golang
• Expertise in Java or C/C++
• Expertise working with Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Hands on experience with Cloud Ops – IaC tools (Terraform/pulumi) and automation
• Expertise in shell scripting
• Strong Linux systems knowledge
• Strong working knowledge in docker or containerd
• Deep understanding and working knowledge on any one of these systems: Zookeeper/etcd/consul
• Working knowledge on any one of these cluster managers: Kubernetes/Docker swarm
• Strong understanding of fundamental distributed system principles
• Experience in building massively scalable high performance services
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to identify Performance bottlenecks
• Contribution in open source projects a plus
• Experience in building highly available platforms running in production handling no downtime rollouts

Benefits

• Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
• For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace.
• Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial.
• Generous paid time off.
• Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
• Resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

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