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Company

PayPal · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$84K/yr - $205K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

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.

Qualification

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JavaObject-Oriented DesignSQL/NoSQLCloud PlatformsDevOps ToolsShell ScriptingPythonGoogle Cloud PlatformREST APIDockerJenkinsSpring BootJQueryKubernetesPuppetNodeJSReactConcurrencyParallelismData StructuresAlgorithms

Required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)

8+ years’ experience in developing large scale applications is an ideal candidate.

Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.

Hands-On experience in Java, Shell Scripting, Unix, jQuery, Python, and working knowledge with cloud platforms like Google BigQuery.

Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms

Knowledge of DevOps container/orchestration tools (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 applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employee shares options

Health and life insurance

Company

PayPal

Glassdoor

3.8

PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.

Founded in 1998

San Jose, California, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.paypal.com/home

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