Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Job Summary

This role serves as a project leader, coordinating the activities of engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. The specialist makes technical decisions, collaborates with management to set standards, and represents Pay Pal to external partners.

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures and processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent Pay Pal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

• Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy
• Support end‑to‑end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade‑offs and providing recommendations
• Provide technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates
• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and e ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components
• Deliver high quality code on time and follow the SDLC process
• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on‑call rotations and provide support during incidents
• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside colleagues

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high‑level programming language
• Advanced skills with RDBMS and No
  
  SQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g., Redis, Elasti Cache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS, Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Pulsar
• Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non‑technical business and support teams
• Expertise with distributed services and backend systems
• Experience building services on public cloud (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience working with fault‑tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems

Pay Pal offers comprehensive, choice‑based programs that support personal well‑being—physical, emotional, and financial—along with generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources for financial and mental health security.

Pay Pal provides equal employment opportunity 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. Pay Pal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.