Sr System & Cloud Engineer
PayPal · Posted Oct 12
Online payment processing, digital wallet, money transfer, and financial services
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About the role
PayPal's Public Cloud Engineering team, part of the Cloud Centre of Excellence, builds a robust and scalable multi-cloud platform along with self-service tools and automation so engineers and product teams across PayPal can adopt AWS, GCP, and Azure securely, reliably, and at scale while accelerating migration from on-premises environments. The team works with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies as well as networking infrastructure such as load balancers, GSLB, CDN, and hybrid connectivity. This role builds public cloud environments and infrastructure and develops full-stack frontend and backend services using JavaScript/React, Golang, Terraform, and Google Kubernetes Engine.
What you will do
- Oversee load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) equipment, Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms, and troubleshoot client/server issues.
- Handle proactive and reactive outages, work with vendors, and take ownership of network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis.
- Lead backbone network design and architecture for on-premises and public cloud migration, and build hybrid connectivity solutions.
- Work with business unit leadership, product managers, and customers to develop project objectives, timelines, and feature requirements.
- Support network system availability, manage network capacity, and ensure compliance with Information Security standards.
- Deploy equipment, manage SSL certificate hosting and renewal, and build infrastructure for data centers and cloud environments.
- Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices.
- Offer on-call support, monitor infrastructure and hosted services, and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Manage and influence global teams, provide guidance and support, and mentor team members in areas of expertise.
- Communicate incident impacts, risks, and mitigation plans to executives, document incident information, and create network engineering documentation and best practices.
- Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
- Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;
- Deliver quality solutions on schedule.
- Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
- Provides recognized technical and business leadership and can provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
- Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
- Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 4-8 years of experience in developing large scale enterprise applications involving frontend and backend
- Experience in developing intuitive and aesthetically pleasing frontend using javascript/react.
- Experience in developing backend REST API based services using Golang.
- Experience in using cloud native services of AWS, GCP and Azure such as cloud functions, pubsub and cloud storage.
- Experience in infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Experience in writing unit and integration tests for frontend(javascript) and backend(Golang).
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting and problem resolution skills.
- Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM processes.
Preferred qualifications
- Good to have knowledge of basic linux commands and shell scripting.
- Good to have knowledge in continuous delivery and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD.
- AI experience a huge plus
Benefits and support
- Comprehensive, choice-based wellbeing programs supporting physical, emotional, and financial health
- Generous paid time off
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Resources to create financial security and support mental health
- Balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at your choice of the PayPal office or your home workspace
About PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system that supports online money transfers globally. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods, providing merchant processing, digital wallets, and peer-to-peer payment services through major brands like Venmo, Braintree, and Xoom.
- Industry
- Financial Technology
- Company size
- 23800 employees
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $216M raised
- 2022-07-26Post IPO
Leadership
President & Chief Executive Officer
Jamie Miller
Chief Financial & Operating Officer
Srini Venkatesan
Chief Technology Officer
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