# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This Staff Software Engineer role at PayPal acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms, catering to 65 million active users and processing transactions worth billions of dollars.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Act as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system

- Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow

- Achieve customer, operational, program, or service objectives through actions

- Proactively improve existing structures and processes

- Exercise judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems

- Notice patterns and condense repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions

- Collaborate with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor

- Represent PayPal to external partners, customers, or industry organizations

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience

- 8+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language

- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems

- Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff

- Expertise with distributed services and backend systems

- Experience with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure

- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing

- Generous paid time off

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

**Salary Range:**

- Austin, Texas: $160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually

- San Jose, California: $176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- RDBMS
- NoSQL
- caching solutions
- messaging/queuing protocols/systems
- distributed services
- backend systems
- public cloud
- Terraform

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