Hybrid Mobile Site Reliability Engineer

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About the role

  • 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 and exercises judgement in reconciling diverse priorities
  • Define mobile-specific SLIs and SLOs (e.g., crash-free sessions, ANRs, app startup time, network success rates, battery/memory usage)
  • Establish best practices for observability, alerting, and incident response in Datadog
  • Lead development of automation and tools for mobile reliability (automated regression detection, performance benchmarking, crash/ANR triage, release health dashboards, instrumentation libraries)
  • Ensure tooling aligns with existing systems (Harness for CI/CD, Gradle/Bazel for builds)
  • Act as primary liaison with backend/web SRE leadership for incident response and shared visibility
  • Partner with Release Engineering, QA, and Product to ensure operational readiness of new features
  • Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize mobile reliability
  • Lead cultural change: define and roll out on-call model for mobile teams and champion a blameless postmortem culture
  • Mentor and guide a distributed team of senior Mobile SREs and provide technical leadership in complex incidents
  • Help recruit and onboard new SREs and set technical and cultural standards
  • Partner with infrastructure and developer productivity teams to integrate Bazel and Gradle builds into reliable CI/CD pipeline and establish long-term roadmaps for mobile reliability

Requirements

  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or mobile systems roles
  • Strong understanding of iOS and/or Android performance and reliability challenges
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog (or equivalent observability platforms) for monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
  • Proven ability to define and implement SLIs/SLOs across complex, distributed systems
  • Experience leading on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
  • Demonstrated experience building automation and internal tools for reliability
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar
  • Working knowledge of Swift/Kotlin for client instrumentation
  • Exceptional ability to influence and partner across engineering, product, and SRE orgs
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and leading distributed teams
  • Preferred: Experience with CI/CD for mobile (Harness, Fastlane, Jenkins)
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Bazel and Gradle build systems
  • Preferred: Prior experience introducing cultural changes (e.g., adopting on-call or reliability practices)
  • Strong knowledge of backend service reliability concepts, to bridge between client and server

Benefits

  • annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable)
  • equity
  • medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
  • health and life insurance
  • employee shares options
  • flexible work environment
  • balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace
  • resources for financial, physical, and mental health

Job title

Mobile Site Reliability Engineer

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$152,500 - $262,350 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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