Senior Staff Software Engineer Details

Senior Staff Software Engineer

PayPal - Washington, DC

Employment Type : Full-Time

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary: About the Team: We act with the energy, collaboration, and innovation of a start-up but with the scale of one of the leading software companies in the world. We are smart, motivated, and diverse people with the autonomy and management support to do our best work. We strive to be customer focused and to deliver high quality outcomes. We continuously learn and take opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. About the Role: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building the next generation of products and capabilities that protect and improve PayPal’s reliability. You will be driving technology direction, building key components, and mentoring other software engineers. You will bring industry expertise of reliable large scale distributed systems and thought leadership to solve problems at PayPal scale such as limiting the blast radius of bad changes, programmatically identifying site health degradation root causes, and autonomously remediating site issues.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

• Drive the technical strategy for PayPal’s reliability platform, identifying and executing on big opportunities while delivering incremental value

• Lead top organization initiatives with hands-on contributions to improve performance and availability of PayPal products

• Help grow the next generation of technical leaders by collaborating on projects and providing feedback

• Evangelize best practices for building highly available products with quality and observability across PayPal

• Define SDLC best practices for a team of 40+ software engineers

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, including technical leadership roles

• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and drive consensus on technical decisions

• Design experience with distributed systems in the cloud (AWS / GCP)

• Expert knowledge of SRE / DevOps best practices

• Strong Linux skills and understanding of operating systems

• Experience building solutions in Java

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform

• Experience with observability tools and best practices (Splunk, DataDog, etc)

• Experience with release engineering and progressive rollouts is a nice to have

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Colorado Only: The pay range for this position in Colorado starts as mentioned below per year, plus annual bonus or commission if a Sales role. We take into consideration an individual’s background and experience in determining final salary. All PayPal employees are shareholders in our Company, so equity is part of our total compensation plan. This role is also eligible for health insurance, stock purchase plans, retirement savings benefits, stock awards, life insurance and disability benefits, and paid time off for sick leave, parental leave, vacation, and PTO. To learn more visit paypalbenefits.com. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location.

Salary in USD:170,510.0

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.