Staff Software Engineer

PayPal•San Jose, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

PayPal, Inc. seeks Staff Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. This role involves leading software engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy. The engineer will design and develop fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems, as well as new cloud-based software solutions using experience with distributed services and backend systems, and expertise in building services on public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Responsibilities include determining technical tasks for other engineers, contributing to the technical engineering roadmap through assessments of implementation alternatives and tradeoffs, analyzing and reconciling diverse priorities to identify optimal solutions, and identifying patterns to reduce repetition into general solutions. The role also requires performing software code and design reviews, writing unit, integration, and functional tests, and resolving technical inquiries. Partial telecommuting is permitted from within a commutable distance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Experience in software engineering, including Java, OOP, and design patterns for scalable application development (8 years).
Experience using Git and modern development workflows including pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Maven (7 years).
Experience applying the full SDLC including requirements gathering, design documentation, testing, deployment, and post-release support (7 years).
Experience building and maintaining microservices with Spring Boot, including REST API development, input validation, service configuration, and integrations with downstream systems (6 years).
Experience in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams (6 years).
Experience with API Gateways such as Apigee for API Management and fault tolerance (6 years).
Experience with APM/observability tools such as SignalFx, Splunk, Grafana, or mPulse for real-time monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis (6 years).
Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, and SQS) to deploy, scale, and monitor microservices in production (3 years).
Experience implementing event-driven systems using Apache Kafka including real-time streaming and decoupling services via pub/sub messaging (3 years).
Experience in the payments domain including exposure to transaction workflows, idempotency handling, and secure service design in regulated environments (1 year).
Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Lead software engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.
Design and develop fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems, and new cloud-based software solutions using experience with distributed services and backend systems, as well as expertise with building services on public cloud -AWS, GCP, Azure.
Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow throughout design, development, testing and implementation phases.
Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations.
Analyze and reconcile diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems, and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices.
Identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions using skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems.
Perform software code and design reviews ensuring an accurate, complete, timely, and operable solution is delivered.
Write unit, integration and functional tests and resolve the technical inquiries.