Site Reliability Engineer

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.

Find out more about this role by reading the information below, then apply to be considered.

Job Description Summary : At PayPal, we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the Engineering team help transform our business through customer-focused incentives, innovative design, and creative excellence.

We are a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of our daily business. Our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness guide us.

Job Description :

Our team is responsible for keeping all user-facing services, production and development systems running smoothly. We own Venmo’s infrastructure end-to-end : operations, automation, security and compliance, release engineering, incident management, etc.

We work on a mix of SRE, TechOps and DevOps projects. On the DevOps side, we own CICD infrastructure, smart and secure pipelines, self-serviced secret management systems, development environments, microservices scaffolding, testing frameworks and others.

The quality of the systems we build is crucial for the Company and we put it on a pedestal. Our infrastructure needs to be delivered automatically, fully tested, and scanned for vulnerabilities with synthetic tests.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will contribute to one of our domains and initiatives. This individual will be a hands-on contributor striving to make our systems better and grow together with the Company.

We have a lot of independence in our decisions, but we are kept accountable for the results.

Our technical stack : AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, DataDog, Bash, Python, Go.

What You’ll Do :

Lead or co-lead small and mid-sized projects end-to-end : internal teams rarely have dedicated project managers - you will wear this hat too.

You will help define the design, identify stakeholders, navigate risks, obstacles and changes, coordinate the work of your colleagues, implement, advertise and overall be the guarantor of the project delivery on time and on quality.

• Strive to help fellow engineers to develop and deliver their code faster and in a secure way.
• Be part of our on-call rotation. It is quite busy, and it has room for improvement.
• Collaborate with your fellow engineers on design principles and best practices.
• Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives.
• Develop tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration via code.
• Improve the operations quality, reliability, and stability of our systems.

What We’re Looking For :

• Bachelors and / or master's in computer science or related field of study.
• 5+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
• 1+ years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365, as part of DevOps or SRE team. We are looking for a quick learner who can start contributing within weeks and on-board to on-call within several months.
• Extensive hands-on experience with designing, implementing and supporting infrastructure to support global-scale services.
• Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider).
• Hands-on programming and scripting (Python, Java, Bash, Go).
• Hands-on experience with containers & container orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills.

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 PayPal Benefits.

Who We Are :

To learn more about our culture and community visit Who We Are.

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 [email protected].

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.

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