7 days ago
Base Salary
$161k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead projects or systems and coordinate the activities of other engineers.
- Determine technical tasks and direction for engineers working on assigned projects or systems.
- Design, implement, automate, and operate cloud-native database systems.
- Improve service availability, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through engineering best practices and AI-driven optimization.
- Proactively improve structures, processes, engineering standards, and technical rigor.
- Reconcile competing priorities involving time, quality, complexity, and risk.
- Mentor and develop leads and engineers.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership, infrastructure teams, product teams, partners, customers, and industry organizations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Expertise with infrastructure as code using AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
- Expertise with programming and scripting using Lambda, API Gateway, Python, Java, and Bash.
- Expertise designing relational and non-relational data stores.
- Expertise operating AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
- Experience mentoring and developing leads and engineers.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at the office or home workspace.
- Comprehensive choice-based wellbeing programs, generous paid time off, healthcare coverage, financial security resources, and mental health support.
- No travel is required.
- Additional compensation may include performance bonus, equity, or other incentives.
Tech Stack
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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.