# Cloud Platform Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cloud Platform team at PayPal manages core cloud infrastructure and platforms enabling various workloads. We're seeking a passionate engineer to join our team and help build the next-generation platform.

**Responsibilities:**

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

- Determine technical tasks for other engineers to follow

- Achieve customer, operational, program, or service objectives

- Proactively improve existing structures and processes

- Exercise judgment in reconciling competing priorities to identify optimal solutions

- Collaborate with management to set/improve engineering standards

- Represent PayPal externally via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

**Additional Responsibilities:**

- Form part of a global team driving best practices in PaaS/CaaS

- Learn and improvise distributed systems on the next-generation Container platform team

- Adapt to new Cloud and Container Platform technologies

- Develop automations, dashboards, and monitoring/alerting to reduce TTD and TTR

- Provide technical lead responsibilities, troubleshoot, and fix issues as they surface

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree

- Experience in building massively scalable high-performance services

- Expertise in Golang, Java, or C/C++

- Experience working with Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

- Hands-on experience with Cloud Ops – IaC tools (Terraform/Pulumi) and automation

- Strong Linux systems knowledge and shell scripting skills

- Working knowledge of Docker or containerd

- Deep understanding of distributed system principles

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs supporting personal wellbeing

- Generous paid time off, healthcare coverage, and resources for financial security and mental health

- Balanced hybrid work model offering 3 days in the office and 2 days remote

## Skills

### Required
- Golang
- Java
- C/C++
- Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Cloud Ops
- IaC tools (Terraform/Pulumi)
- Linux systems
- shell scripting
- Docker or containerd
- distributed system principles

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- performance bottlenecks identification
- highly available platforms

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