Cloud Platform Software Engineer - Software Engineering

The Company

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. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

What you need to know about the role

As a Cloud Platform Software Engineer, you'll help build and run the next-generation cloud infrastructure and platform that powers PayPal. Working with cloud native technologies, cluster managers like Kubernetes, and containers across a multi-cloud environment, you'll support PayPal business teams as they scale applications serving millions of customers and processing billions of dollars in payments worldwide.

Meet our team

The Multi Cloud Infra team manages the core cloud infrastructure and platforms that support every kind of workload at PayPal. We're a central team that enables developers and operations to build, ship, and run applications and manage infrastructure at scale across multiple cloud providers.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff
• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures
• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
• May contribute to code & design reviews

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Your way to impact

You'll be part of a global team driving best practices across our multi-cloud infrastructure, joining our team with the opportunity to learn and improve distributed systems that scale across the company. Your work will directly shape how reliably and efficiently PayPal's applications run in production.

Your day to day

• Adapt to new cloud and container platform technologies, build and release processes, and production topologies and architecture, while identifying gaps in platform and process and working with the team to improve tools and workflows.
• Develop automation, dashboards, and monitoring/alerting to help reduce time to detect (TTD) and time to resolve (TTR) issues.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues as they surface, and support developer and production operations teams to unblock them and resolve customer-impacting incidents.
• Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation supporting production operations.
• Bring a hunger to learn and adopt new technologies that improve platform efficiency, reliability, and performance.

What do you need to bring

• 2+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance services.
• Proficiency in Golang.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform/Pulumi) and automation.
• Working knowledge of shell scripting and strong Linux systems fundamentals.
• Familiarity with distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper, etcd, or Consul.
• Working knowledge of cluster managers such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Strong understanding of fundamental distributed systems principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identify performance bottlenecks.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Docker or containerd.
• Contributions to open source projects and experience running highly available, zero-downtime production platforms.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes.  Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately.  To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us. 

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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