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PayPal Staff Software Engineer - Backend 
United States, California, San Jose 
503080082

09.10.2025

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.

  • scalable systems — from data pipelines to backend services — to process and deliver high-quality product catalog data at scale.

  • high availability, reliability, and performanceof backend services, with robust monitoring, alerting, and fault-tolerance mechanisms.

  • Drive best practices in software engineeringincluding testing, code reviews, observability, and documentation for both services and pipelines


Looking For

  • Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • 8+ years of industry experiencedesigning, building, and deploying large-scale distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.

  • Strong programming skills in JavaScript/Node.js, Python, Scala, or Golang.

  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

  • Hands-on experience withAPI design and development(REST,GraphQL) and buildingmicroservices architectures

  • withbatch and streaming data technologiessuch as Apache Beam, Dataflow, Spark, Flink, or Pub/Sub/Kafka.

  • Solid understanding ofdata modeling, schema design, and lifecycle management, along with modern data warehousing tools (e.g.,BigQuery, Snowflake,dbt).

  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD and observability tooling.

  • Strong communication

Preferred Qualification:

  • Experience in e-commerce, product catalogs,advertisementorsearch and recommendationsystems

  • Familiarity with machine learningoperation

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 $196,500 to $291,500

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