Staff Software Engineer

PayPal • Scottsdale, AZ

74d • $152,500 - $262,350 • Hybrid

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 and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Bachelors and/or master's in computer science or related field of study
• 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) to support global-scale services
• 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
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience

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
• Lead major initiatives end-to-end: internal teams rarely have dedicated project managers
• Continually raise the bar through assisting fellow engineers in developing and delivering their code more efficiently and securely
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Coach and mentor engineers on design principles and best practices
• Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives
• Strategically and tactically leading by example, making meaningful contributions to the improvement of engineering teams' production operations
• Develop and improve tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration as code
• Enhance the quality, reliability, and stability of our infrastructure and operations

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits

What This Job Offers

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