PayPal

Staff Software Engineer

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Austin, TX, USA or San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$161k - $262k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Act as a project or system leader by coordinating engineers and determining technical tasks.
  • Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes, refining processes, and providing technical guidance.
  • Design, estimate, implement, and refactor secure, reliable, scalable software services.
  • Own end-to-end design, implementation quality, performance, availability, and operational excellence of software components.
  • Assess implementation alternatives and trade-offs and contribute recommendations to the technical engineering roadmap.
  • Provide technical leadership for a small team, mentor engineers at all levels, and collaborate with product, engineering operations, business, and support teams.
  • Improve engineering structures, processes, standards, and rigor while balancing time, quality, complexity, and risk.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide operational and incident support.
  • Represent PayPal in interactions with partners, customers, and industry organizations.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging or queuing systems.
  • Expertise building distributed backend services and systems.
  • Experience building services on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
  • Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
  • Ability to lead projects, mentor engineers, and manage relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive choice-based programs supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
  • Generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for employees and families, financial security resources, and mental health support.
  • Balanced hybrid work model for most employees with 3 days in the office and 2 days either at the PayPal office or home workspace.
  • No travel is required; the listed work locations are San Jose, California and Austin, Texas.
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10,000+ employees

We're championing possibilities for all by making money fast, easy, and more enjoyable. Our hope is to unlock opportunities for people in their everyday lives and empower the millions of people and businesses around the world who trust, rely, and use PayPal every day. For support, visit the PayPal Help Center. https://payp.al/help For employment opportunities, check out our job openings in the 'Jobs' tab. We're an equal opportunity employer that welcomes diversity, and offer generous benefits to help you thrive at work and in your free time. NMLS#910457: https://nmlsconsumeraccess.org/

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