PayPal

Staff Software Engineer

PayPal

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Jose • Arizona, California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $152,500 - $262,350 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerGoJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating activities of other engineers and determining technical tasks
  • Makes technical decisions, collaborates with management to set/improve engineering standards, and represents PayPal externally
  • Lead major initiatives end-to-end: define design, identify stakeholders, navigate risks, coordinate work, implement solutions, and deliver projects
  • Hands-on contributor who mentors senior and junior engineers and provides guidance and thought leadership
  • Manage Venmo's cloud infrastructure: operations, automation, security, compliance, and release engineering
  • Oversee CI/CD infrastructure, implement secure pipelines, self-service secret management, development environments, and microservices scaffolding/testing frameworks
  • Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
  • Develop and improve tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration as code, and enhance quality, reliability, and stability

Requirements

  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years' experience in software development or a related field (preferred)
  • 5+ years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 as part of a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team
  • 2+ years technical leadership experience
  • Hands-on experience designing, implementing and supporting infrastructure (AWS experience preferred)
  • Deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider)
  • Hands-on programming and scripting: Python, Java, Bash, Go
  • Hands-on experience with containers & container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS
  • Experience with Terraform, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Datadog
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's in computer science or related field (preferred)
Benefits
  • Balanced hybrid work model (3 days in the office, 2 days remote choice)
  • Flexible work environment
  • Employee shares/options (equity)
  • Annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable)
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health and life insurance
  • Benefits and resources supporting financial, physical, and mental health

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
cloud infrastructureCI/CDinfrastructure as codeprogrammingscriptingcontainerscontainer orchestrationautomationsecuritycompliance
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical decision-makingstakeholder managementrisk navigationguidancethought leadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree
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