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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.\n\nResponsibilities\nActs as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system\nDetermines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow\nActions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives\nProactively improves existing structures & processes\nExercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems\nNotices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions\nCollaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor\nTrusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations\nYou 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\nYou 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\nYou will be developing automations, dashboard, monitoring/alerting to help reduce TTD and TTR\nScope 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\nLooking for passionate engineers with hunger to learn and adapt to technologies, use new technologies fits best to provide platform efficiency, reliability and performance\n\nSkills\n5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience\nOverall 5+ years development experience\nWorking experience in building massively scalable high performance services\nExpertise in Golang\nExpertise in Java or C/C++\nExpertise working with Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)\nHands on experience with Cloud Ops – IaC tools (Terraform/pulumi) and automation\nExpertise in shell scripting\nStrong Linux systems knowledge\nStrong working knowledge in docker or containerd\nDeep understanding and working knowledge on any one of these systems: Zookeeper/etcd/consul\nWorking knowledge on any one of these cluster managers: Kubernetes/Docker swarm\nStrong understanding of fundamental distributed system principles\nExperience in building massively scalable high performance services\nExcellent problem solving skills\nAbility to identify Performance bottlenecks\nContribution in open source projects a plus\nExperience in building highly available platforms running in production handling no downtime rollouts\n\nBenefits\nAdditional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.\nFor 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.\nComprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial.\nGenerous paid time off.\nHealthcare coverage for you and your family.\nResources to create financial security and support your mental health.\n\nCompany Overview\nVenmo offers an app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://venmo.com.\n\nCompany H1B Sponsorship\nVenmo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1192 in 2026, 1113 in 2025, 913 in 2024, 775 in 2023, 921 in 2022, 1051 in 2021, 1049 in 2020. 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