Senior Software Engineer

We are the Site Reliability Engineering Team (SRE) at PayPal. Our mission is to provide world class platforms, practices and services that ensure the customers see PayPal as the most reliable payments platform on the planet. We create solutions that prevent incidents. We enable visibility, insight and rapid restoration that ranges from the smallest detectable customer impact to the largest events outside our control. Our ethos is continuously improving our processes and automation. As the Site Health Restoration Team in SRE, we build solutions for a holistic understanding of how PayPal production is operating and build products to facilitate a DevOps culture. The team makes data-driven decisions and builds capabilities at scale that will be used by PayPal engineers.

About our team culture: 

• Communication is key to our process, and we don't want to hinder it with walls.  

• We practice test-driven development and believe that it helps us deliver simple solutions focused on real customer needs. We have no QA department – developers test, release and monitor their own code. 

• We keep the team in sync with daily stand-ups and have regular retrospectives to discuss things that are going well and opportunities for improvements. 

• We value unique perspectives brought by diverse backgrounds and experiences. A broad range of ideas and perspectives help us to create the best possible product. 

Role Requirements: 

You are a motivated software engineer who is passionate about making thousands of engineers productive by building internal products, automating at scale, and enabling DevOps. You are a self-starter, able to work solo and part of a cross-functional team. You thrive at simplifying hard problems and can articulate the solution to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.  

You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining products and automation to support observability and automated incident restoration.  

We know there are endless tools in the software engineering toolbox, and we do not expect you to come in as an expert on everything. You will be learning a lot as you are exposed to new tools and technologies. 

• 5+ years software development experience preferably in Java, with passion for code craftmanship, quality and continuous improvement. 

• Ability and desire to work in our collaborative environment and focus on building solutions utilizing an agile approach: fluid interactions with product and operations teams, communicating and digesting real time feedback, and prioritizing to keep short term wins and long-term goals in mind. 

• Solid understanding of cloud native design and security principles. 

• Experience building and owning business critical distributed systems running on AWS or GCP or other public cloud. 

• Experience working with DevOps practices, Splunk, SignalFX, Terraform is a nice to have. 

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