Hybrid Staff Software Engineer

at PayPal

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,500 - $238,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, NoSQL, Pulsar, Python, RabbitMQ, RDBMS, Redis, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer leading project efforts in Payments Engineering at PayPal. Coordinating engineering activities and improving processes across a global payment platform.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Leads engineering efforts and team level processes
• Supports end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components
• Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates
• Takes ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components
• Owns the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
• Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
• Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
• Expert with distributed services and backend systems
• Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure
• Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Generous paid time off
• Comprehensive, choice-based programs for personal wellbeing
• Resources to create financial security and support mental health