PayPal Staff Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

662072700

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Job Description:

Staff Software Engineer

Your Day to Day:

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team.
• Performa hands on role helping lead strategy and guidance for the observability team
• Quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and help create solutions
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Observability team technically.
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams
• Help with evaluation using Proof of Concept on the different options/solutions selected that should solve for all the use cases.
• Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily manageable configurations, and helping solve scalability bottlenecks to improve performance
• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks
• Be able to troubleshoot and help fix performance, scalability, and other live issues in a time critical environment.
• Be able to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision.
• Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will bring at least 8+ years of experiencein developing large scale applications
• Observability and monitoring experience is required
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Hands-On experience in Java, Shell Scripting, Unix, jQuery, Python, and working knowledge with cloud platforms like Google BigQuery.
• Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms
• Knowledge of DevOpscontainer/orchestrationtools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc.) and UI frameworks (NodeJS, React).
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, and Spring boot.
• Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications.
• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
• A Bachelor’s and/or Masters level degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Analysis, or a related field is preferred but not required

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

Our Benefits:

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