PayPal System & Cloud Engineer 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

634557382

You’ll build scalable cloud infrastructure for PayPal Credit products using AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud networking, storage, and security best practices. You'll also act as a cloud advisor to our application teams, where you’ll guide best-practice adoption through automation, optimization, and the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework to help grow PayPal Credit.The Developer Experience team powers PayPal Credit’s Buy Now Pay Later and merchant lending products, providing cloud and platform capabilities to our developers. In this role, you’ll design and implement secure, cost-efficient solutions and drive automation to help our platform scale. You’ll lead technical initiatives, learn from senior engineers, and partner with developers to streamline workflows, accelerate delivery, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security of our systems.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assist in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based systems to support scalable and reliable applications.
• Analyze and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems within cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain automated processes to streamline deployment, configuration, and monitoring of cloud-based infrastructure.
• Utilize monitoring tools to ensure the health and performance of applications, addressing any issues promptly to maintain reliability.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements.
• Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems efficiently in response to business needs and traffic demands.
• Investigate and resolve system-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent system availability.
• Contribute to the evaluation and integration of cloud services and tools to enhance infrastructure capabilities.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems, configurations, and operational procedures to support team collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Experience designing highly available, cost-aware cloud infrastructure based on industry standard cloud patterns (AWS or similar).
• Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration services like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with IAM, cloud networking, and security best practices.
• Experience administrating and using CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with scripting languages like Python or Bash and an object-oriented programming language like Java.
• Experience with relational database services like Amazon Aurora and PostgreSQL.
• Proactive and self-driven, able to learn new technologies quickly, takes initiative to improve infrastructure and processes, and shares knowledge to elevate peers and partner teams.

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 $100,500 to $173,250

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