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About the Role
The Cloud Platform team manages core cloud infrastructure and platforms, supporting developers and operations in building and running applications. We are seeking a passionate engineer to help build the next generation of our platform.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers.
- Determines the technical tasks for other engineers.
- Achieves customer, operational, program, or service objectives.
- Proactively improves existing structures and processes.
- Exercises judgment in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions.
- Identifies patterns and generalizes solutions to condense repetition.
- Collaborates with management to set and improve standards for engineering rigor.
- Represents PayPal externally through interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations.
- Drives best practices in the PaaS/CaaS arena as part of a global team.
- Adapts to new Cloud and Container Platform technologies, build and release processes, and production topologies.
- Identifies gaps in platform and processes and works with the platform team to improve tools, processes, and the platform.
- Develops automations, dashboards, and monitoring/alerting to reduce Time to Develop (TTD) and Time to Resolve (TTR).
- Provides technical leadership, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Supports developer and production operations teams to unblock them and overcome failed customer interactions.
- Supports 24/7/365 on-call operations.
Requirements
- 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.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- 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.
Skills
- Golang
- Java
- C/C++
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Shell scripting
- Linux
- Docker
- containerd
- Zookeeper
- etcd
- consul
- Kubernetes
- Docker swarm
- Distributed system principles
Location
- San Jose, California
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years relevant experience
- Overall 5+ years development experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- San Jose, California: ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually)
- Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually)
Benefits
- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
- Resources to create financial security.
- Support for mental health.
About the Company
- PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure.
- We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers.
- Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day, guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.
- We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits.
Equal Opportunity
- PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
- In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.