PayPal Software Engineer 

United States, Arizona, Scottsdale 

691955241

Job Description:

Job Title:Software Engineer

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improvise the Observability platform running at a scale few companies can match.

You will work closely with product and experience and/or development teams to understand the developer needs around observability and deliver the functions that meets their needs. The possibilities are unlimited for disruptive thinking, and you will have an opportunity to be a part of making history in the niche Observability area.

Your Day to Day:

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team.
• Be required to quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems and use different build and deploy pipelines - to add new features and fix issues.
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and exercise empathy and maturity while working with them to solve the problems.
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Observability team technically.
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams and help guide evaluation and adoption of a next generation Observability Platform for PayPal that is scalable, reliable and fault tolerant.
• Help with evaluation using Proof of Concept on the different options/solutions selected that should solve for all the use cases.
• Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily manageable configurations, solving scalability bottlenecks to improve performance and maximize system availability by ensuring functional and performance SLAs.
• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks collaboratively with peers and technical leaders.
• Be able to troubleshoot and help fix performance, scalability, and other live issues in a very time critical environment.
• Be able to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision.
• Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will bring at least 3+ years of experiencein developing large scale applications
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering is required
• Hands-On experience in Java, Shell Scripting, Unix, jQuery, Python, and working knowledge with cloud platforms like Google BigQuery (Java, Python preferred)
• Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms
• Knowledge of DevOpscontainer/orchestrationtools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc.) and UI frameworks (NodeJS, React).
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, and Spring boot.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We're looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience) is preferred

Our Benefits:

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