PayPal Staff Infrastructure Engineer - DevOps 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

135361396

various load-balancing services, built on AWS

As a SEngineer on the Team, You Will:

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team productivity, agile processes, and methods to enhance efficiency.

• participatein system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of Braintree.

• Collaborate closely with the team’s tech lead and architects to advance large initiatives.

• Introduce advanced performance monitoring and alerting systems to proactivelyidentifyand address potential issues.

• Work alongside engineers both within and outside the team to develop and enhance our services.

• Collaborate and integrate with multiple engineering teams effectively.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of all of Braintree’s external APIs to inform architecture decisions.

• Trace bugs and errors across multiple systems, including those you do not own, sometimes on behalf of customer-facing teammates.

• Improve andmaintainthorough documentation for all systems and processes tofacilitateknowledge sharing and onboarding.

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• Strengthen security practices and conduct regular security audits to ensure the infrastructure's robustness.

• Participate in all stages of the software development cycle, including the design and development of significant new architectural systems and improvements.

• Develop andmaintaintechnical documentation.

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for the services we manage.

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of software development or DevOps experience.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficient in using the Unix command line.

• Skilled in at least one shell scripting language (e.g., Bash).

• Familiar with at least oneinfrastructure-as-codetool or configuration management system (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.

• Exceptional skills in solving complex technical problems.

• Experience inoperatinga network edge system at scale.

• Familiarity with AWS services, including NLB, ALB, Route 53, Elastic IP, EC2, etc.

• Proficient with Kubernetes.

• Background in working within a large engineering environment, coordinating efforts across multiple teams, and leading organization-wide projects.

• Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences.