Paypal
Staff Software Engineer
Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer on PayPal's Platform Enablement and Quality team, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable platform frameworks, developer tooling, and quality engineering solutions. You are a technical leader who sets the engineering bar for reliability, testability, and developer productivity across AITech's platform.
About Paypal
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in platform or infrastructure engineering
- Proven track record designing and building large-scale distributed platform services with high availability and reliability
- Deep expertise in quality engineering: test automation frameworks (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end), test pyramid design, and CI/CD pipeline architecture
- Strong experience with platform enablement tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar CI/CD systems
- Proficiency in Java, Python, or Go; experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience building observability solutions: metrics, logging, and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
Key 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 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
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