Staff Software Engineer

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, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We 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.

We 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. 

Our 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.

Job Summary:

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Job Description:

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Meet our Team:

The Observability Team at PayPal is responsible for providing a world-class platform that can collect, ingest, store, alert and visualize data from many different sources in PayPal – like application logs, infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Containers, Network, Load Balancers etc. The platform should provide functionalities that enables different teams in PayPal to gain business insights and debugging/triaging of issues in an easy-to-use and intuitive and self-service manner. The platform should be scalable to support the data needs for PayPal (fortune 500 company); be highly available at 99.9% or higher; be reliable and fault-tolerant across the different physical data centers and thousands for micro services.

Your Way to Impact:

As an engineer in our development team, you will be responsible for developing the next gen of PayPal's Observability platform, support the long-term reliability and scalability of the system and will be involved in implementations that avoid/minimize the day-to-day support work to keep the systems up and running. If you are passionate about application development, systems design, scaling beyond 99.9% reliability and working in a highly dynamic environment with a team of smart and talented engineers then this is the job for you. You will work closely with product and experience and/or development teams to understand the developer needs around observability and deliver the functions that meets their needs. The possibilities are unlimited for disruptive thinking, and you will have an opportunity to be a part of making history in the niche Observability area.

Your Day to Day:

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team. 
• Performa hands on role helping lead strategy and guidance for the observability team
• Quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and help create solutions 
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Observability team technically. 
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams
• Help with evaluation using Proof of Concept on the different options/solutions selected that should solve for all the use cases.
• Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily manageable configurations, and helping solve scalability bottlenecks to improve performance
• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks
• Be able to troubleshoot and help fix performance, scalability, and other live issues in a time critical environment.
• Be able to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision.
• Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will bring at least 8+ years of experience in developing large scale applications
• Observability and monitoring experience is required
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Hands-On experience in Java, Shell Scripting, Unix, jQuery, Python, and working knowledge with cloud platforms like Google BigQuery.
• Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms
• Knowledge of DevOps container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc.) and UI frameworks (NodeJS, React).
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, and Spring boot.
• Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications.
• 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
• A Bachelor’s and/or Masters level degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Analysis, or a related field is preferred but not required

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

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, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

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.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.