Platform Engineer

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

As an Engineer on the Platform as a Service team at Venmo, you are a thoughtful and collaborative technologist who loves to build maintainable, scalable, and reliable platform services. In this role, you’ll ensure standardization and stability of our platform, empowering Venmo’s product engineering teams to rapidly innovate on amazing new features.

The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with strong experience writing Python services on Kubernetes, using MySQL and other NoSQL databases. As a PaaS Engineer at Venmo, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of Venmo.

Job Description:

Platform Engineer

As an Engineer on the Platform as a Service team at Venmo, you are a thoughtful and collaborative technologist who loves to build maintainable, scalable, and reliable platform services.  In this role, you’ll ensure standardization and stability of our platform, empowering Venmo’s product engineering teams to rapidly innovate on amazing new features.
 

The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with strong experience writing Python services on Kubernetes, using MySQL and other NoSQL databases. As a PaaS Engineer at Venmo, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of Venmo.

• Design and implement new services using cutting edge technologies to support Venmo achieving its business goals.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to develop robust, portable, and interoperable solutions to the difficult problems faced by a growing organization.
• Collaborate with the Information Security team to keep Venmo, and its customers, safe from emerging security threats.
• Take an active role in reducing the technical debt in our various codebases.
• Triage, debug, and assure the timely resolution of software defects.

What We’re Looking For

• You have at least 3+ years of industry experience.
• You exhibit excitement and readiness to work in a collaborative environment.
• You seek the opportunity to accept and give constructive criticism and to brainstorm with team members.
• You bring attention to detail and thoroughness, including documentation and testing.
• You have experience maintaining end-to-end availability and performance of critical services.
• You understand the tools at your disposal and can determine when a new tool is appropriate for the task at hand.

How to Really Get Our Attention

• You have experience with production services in public clouds, containers, and kubernetes.
• You have experience with developing distributed services using technologies success as gRPC, Finagle, Thrift, or similar.
• You have experience with database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or similar.
• You have experience analyzing and remediating performance issues in distributed applications.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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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 https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:
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PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com ,  https://about.pypl.com and  https://investor.pypl.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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

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