Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
This role is a technical leader for the API Management platform. You will coordinate the work of other engineers, set technical direction, improve existing structures and processes, and make design decisions that affect the internal and external teams building on PayPal’s APIs. Serve as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the API Management platform. Own the design, implementation, and operational health of core APIM components, including governance, lifecycle, security, and observability capabilities. Contribute to the technical roadmap by assessing implementation alternatives, trade-offs, and recommendations. Mentor engineers at all levels and advise senior leaders on platform systems, challenges, and strategy. Own availability and performance of the platform and participate in on-call and incident response.
Requirements
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of experience with Java, Python, or an equivalent high-level programming language.
- Deep experience designing and operating APIs at scale: REST, gRPC, API gateways, rate limiting, authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC), versioning, and deprecation, validation framework.
- Experience with API management products or gateway platforms.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions such as Redis, and messaging/queueing systems such as Kafka or SQS.
- Expertise building fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services on public cloud, preferably GCP or AWS.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Experience with observability, SLOs, and developer-facing platform products.
- Ability to lead projects and influence across Product, Security, Engineering Operations, and partner engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
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
- generous paid time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your family
- resources to create financial security
- support your mental health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
