Senior Software Engineer

PayPal Observability team is looking for talented and passionate engineers to solve problems of scale and distribution for their Observability services and components. We are looking for someone who is highly hands on in design and implementation of scalable solutions, conversant on open standards implementation, is able to translate business needs into technology solutions and roadmaps based on deep understanding of the business needs and products. The candidate should be able to Increase overall code, product, design and quality in the organization. Research, assess, and recommend external technologies and products for their applicability to complex project requirements and contribute to the development of new company concepts.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Meet our Team:

The Observability Team at PayPal is responsible for providing a world-class platform that can collect, ingest, store, alert and visualize data from many different sources within PayPal – like application logs, infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Containers, Network, Load Balancers etc. The platform should provide functionalities that enables different teams within PayPal to gain business insights and debugging/triaging of issues in an easy-to-use and intuitive and self-service manner. The platform should be scalable to support the data needs for PayPal, be highly available at 99.9% or higher, be reliable and fault-tolerant across the different physical data centers and thousands of micro services.

Your Way to Impact:

• Help solve problems of scale and distribution for PayPal’s Observability services and components.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable solutions
• Your work will directly help with merchant monitoring, providing real time data and alerts for all PayPal merchants

Your Day to Day:

• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams and help guide evaluation, building and adoption of a next generation Observability Platform
• Involved in the day-to-day development & support work on the Observability team. 
• Be able 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. 
• Very good debugging skills to troubleshoot issues and recommend the root cause fixes for the 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. 
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements. 
• 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. 
• Mentor junior staff and/or team members in the best practices of code quality and coding practices.
• 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 

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will have at least 6+ years of experience as a backend developer coding in java
• Candidate should have experience planning, architecting, designing, developing, and delivering software related to platforms at scale
• Hands-On experience working with data pipelines and building bigdata based monitoring applications is required
• Hands-On experience in Java, Python, NoSQL data stores like HBase, and working knowledge with messaging platforms like KAFKA is required
• Experience monitoring large scale distributed systems is required (monitoring, observability, site reliability)
• Knowledge of Devops container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc) is preferred
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network
• Knowledge of OOP/OOD/Functional languages along with strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms is nice to have
• Experience developing solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics, network
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Java and Spring boot

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.