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