PayPal Sr Staff Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

644901549

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Job Description:

Job Description:

day-to-day:

Anchor major teamwork streams to build and improve large-scale systems, grow the scale of our platform, reduce complexity, increase automation, and burn down technical debt.

Build key components of our platform via pair programming with other engineers.

Design and develop highly scalable and available applications for mission-critical systems.

Design, develop and maintain client-side and server-side software components including Web, REST APIs, GraphQL API, real-time systems, and batch.

Set up practices to ensure the highest levels of operational resiliency.

Collaborate with leadership, peers, and customers to effectively deliver solutions and projects.

Serve as a mentor, technical leader, and thought leader within a talented team of engineers, challenging others and helping them grow.

Track the business impact of features regularly and rely on performance data to make informed decisions about possible changes or improvements.

Contribute to a culture of learning and sharing technology insights across teams.

Support production systems 24/7 (One week in 2+ months - Teamrotation-based).

What do you need to bring:

10+ years of experience in software engineering.

Design and operational experience with large-scale production-grade systems.

Strong experience in Java, TypeScript development is a must.

Linux skills and understanding of operating systems.

Proficiency with at least one scripting language.

Experience designing, building, and maintaining large distributed systems on one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Extensive API design and development experience.

Strong technical accomplishments in SQL, ETLs, and data analysis skills.

MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, or similar data handling experience.

Expertise with modern messaging platforms (e.g. ActiveMQ, Kafka, SQS / SNS).

Expertise in performance testing and tuning.

Experience with infrastructure as code tooling such as Terraform & CloudFormation.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment.

Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities.

Proven results-oriented engineer with a focus on the customer and delivering quality products.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.

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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

$96900 to $234300

Our Benefits:

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