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Base Salary
$161k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the activities of engineers working on projects or systems.
- Determine technical tasks and provide technical direction for other engineers.
- Own the design, implementation, availability, performance, and operational health of core API Management components.
- Develop governance, lifecycle, security, observability, validation, versioning, and deprecation capabilities for APIs.
- Assess implementation alternatives and trade-offs to contribute to the technical roadmap.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and advise senior leaders on platform systems, challenges, and strategy.
- Improve engineering structures, processes, and standards in collaboration with management.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities and incident response.
- Represent PayPal in interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 8 years of experience with Java, Python, or an equivalent high-level programming language is preferred.
- Deep experience designing and operating APIs at scale, including API gateways, rate limiting, OAuth2/OIDC, versioning, deprecation, and validation frameworks.
- Experience with API management products or gateway platforms.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, Redis, and messaging or queueing systems such as Kafka or SQS.
- Expertise building fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services on public cloud platforms, preferably GCP or AWS.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Experience with observability, SLOs, and developer-facing platform products.
- Ability to lead projects and influence Product, Security, Engineering Operations, and partner engineering teams.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model with three days in the office and two days at either the PayPal office or home workspace.
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for employees and their families.
- Resources supporting financial security and mental health.
- Flexible, balanced work culture with comprehensive choice-based wellbeing programs.
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About PayPal
PayPal builds digital payments platforms for consumers and merchants, including PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom, supporting online, in‑app, and in‑person checkout and peer‑to‑peer transfers. It earns primarily from transaction and merchant processing fees, plus value‑added services such as risk management and branded credit. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, PayPal operates in roughly 200 markets and is a public company traded on NASDAQ.