Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
PayPal's Cloud Platform team manages core cloud infrastructure and platforms that enable a variety of workloads. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help build the next-generation platform and support developers and operations teams in developing, building, and running applications and managing infrastructure. You will join a global team advancing best practices in the PaaS/CaaS space and work with next-generation container platforms and distributed systems. The role involves adapting to new cloud and container technologies, improving platform tools and processes, and developing automation, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting to reduce time to detection and time to resolution. The position may include technical leadership, troubleshooting, resolving platform issues, and helping developer and production operations teams. It includes supporting on-call operations personnel 24/7/365.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 5 years of development experience.
- Experience building massively scalable, high-performance services.
- Expertise in Golang.
- Expertise in Java or C/C++.
- Expertise working with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with cloud operations, infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, and automation.
- Expertise in shell scripting and strong Linux systems knowledge.
- Strong working knowledge of Docker or containerd.
- Deep understanding and working knowledge of at least one of ZooKeeper, etcd, or Consul.
- Working knowledge of at least one cluster manager: Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
- Strong understanding of fundamental distributed systems principles.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience identifying performance bottlenecks.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience building highly available production platforms that support zero-downtime rollouts.
Responsibilities
- Act as a project or system leader and coordinate other engineers' work.
- Determine technical tasks for other engineers to follow.
- Improve existing structures and processes proactively.
- Balance competing priorities involving time, quality, complexity, and risk to identify solutions.
- Identify recurring patterns and create generalized solutions.
- Collaborate with management to establish and improve engineering rigor standards.
- Represent PayPal in interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations.
- Adapt to cloud and container platform technologies, build and release processes, production topologies, and architecture to address environmental issues.
- Identify gaps in the platform and processes and work with the platform team to improve tools, processes, and platform capabilities.
- Develop automation, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting to reduce time to detection and time to resolution.
- Provide technical leadership as needed, troubleshoot and fix issues, and support developer and production operations teams.
- Support 24/7/365 on-call operations personnel.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for employees and their families.
- Resources to support financial security and mental health.
- An annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation may be offered, as applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
