Cloud Platform Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a Cloud Platform Software Engineer, youll help build and run the next-generation cloud infrastructure and platform that powers PayPal. Working with cloud native technologies, cluster managers like Kubernetes, and containers across a multi-cloud environment, youll support PayPal business teams as they scale applications serving millions of customers and processing billions of dollars in payments worldwide.

Meet our team: The Multi Cloud Infra team manages the core cloud infrastructure and platforms that support every kind of workload at PayPal. Were a central team that enables developers and operations to build, ship, and run applications and manage infrastructure at scale across multiple cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff

• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures

• Understands internal standards processes an applies them to make technical decisions

• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions

• May contribute to code design reviews

  Minimum Qualifications

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

  Your way to impact

You'll be part of a global team driving best practices across our multi-cloud infrastructure, joining our team with the opportunity to learn and improve distributed systems that scale across the company. Your work will directly shape how reliably and efficiently PayPal's applications run in production.

Your day to day

• Adapt to new cloud and container platform technologies, build and release processes, and production topologies and architecture, while identifying gaps in platform and process and working with the team to improve tools and workflows.

• Develop automation, dashboards, and monitoring/alerting to help reduce time to detect (TTD) and time to resolve (TTR) issues.

• Troubleshoot and fix issues as they surface, and support developer and production operations teams to unblock them and resolve customer-impacting incidents.

• Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation supporting production operations.

• Bring a hunger to learn and adopt new technologies that improve platform efficiency, reliability, and performance.

  What do you need to bring

• 2+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance services.

• Proficiency in Golang.

• Hands-on experience working with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform/Pulumi) and automation.

• Working knowledge of shell scripting and strong Linux systems fundamentals.

• Familiarity with distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper, etcd, or Consul.

• Working knowledge of cluster managers such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.

• Strong understanding of fundamental distributed systems principles.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identify performance bottlenecks.

  Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Docker or containerd.

• Contributions to open source projects and experience running highly available, zero-downtime production platforms.

  Subsidiary

PayPal

Travel Percent

0

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