Staff Software Engineer

PayPal • San Jose, CA

90d • $152,500 - $262,350

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
• 5+ years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365, as part of a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team.
• 2+ years technical leadership experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with 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.

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.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Employee shares options.
• Health and life insurance.
• Annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable).
• Equity.
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees