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PayPal Principal Staff Software Engineer United States, California, San Jose 386383118
20.03.2025
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Job Description:
Overview:
- Define and implement best practices for cloud-native architectures including Kubernetes, serverless, and distributed systems.
- Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable payment services in the cloud.
- Optimize performance, security, and cost-efficiency of cloud-based services.
- Develop strategies for migrating stateful and stateless services, ensuring data consistency and zero-downtime deployment.
- Modernize databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL) and implement multi-region, multi-cloud strategies.
- Partner with SRE, DevOps, and Security teams to define SLAs, resilience strategies, and cloud governance policies.
- Write clean, functional code for the front-end and back-end features.
- Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do.
- Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and technical excellence.
Required Skills:
- 15+ years of experience in software development, with 5+ years of cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) in designing and implementing scalable, fault tolerant components.
- Hands-on experience in migrating microservices & databases from on-prem to cloud in large-scale, high-traffic environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, service mesh, event-driven architecture, and database sharing strategies.
- Experience in real-time payment processing, payment gateways, or fintech platforms is a strong plus.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js.
- Strong understanding of security best practices, encryption, and compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC2).
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, deploying in containers like Dockers, Kubernetes
- Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.
- Expertise on performance testing and tuning
- Knowledge of modern messaging platforms (e.g. ActiveMQ, Kafka, SQS / SNS)
Required soft skills
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams, particularly guiding junior and mid-level engineers working on the cloud modernization initiative.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence within the organization.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with engineering, product, compliance, and executive leadership.
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive to lead cloud modernization with minimal disruption to mission-critical payment services.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally across engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to drive end-to-end modernization efforts.
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 U.S. national annual pay range for this role is
$120300 to $287100
Our Benefits:
Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please
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