Principal Engineer, Agentic Systems

The Company

Pay Pal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, Pay Pal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. Pay Pal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a Pay Pal or Venmo account balance, Pay Pal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.

Our Pay Pal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk.

We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do - and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

This job increases the effectiveness of software engineers, sets the technology roadmap, adapts roles to achieve technical goals, provides advice to senior executives, handles ambiguous situations, uses exploratory research for decisions, identifies improvement opportunities, mentors others, and enhances organizational performance.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

* Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain

* Sets the technology roadmap for a domain

* Adapts their role to the need, selecting the most effective means of realizing their technical goals

* Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within Pay Pal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies

* Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results

* Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions

* Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions

* Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement

* Uses professional savvy to determine when industry-standard solutions can be adopted, versus when a problem space warrants a novel solution ("build/buy")

* Mentor others as a means of propagating technical influence, and to enhance the performance of their organization

Minimum Qualifications:

* 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities &

Preferred Qualifications:

* 10+ years in software/ML engineering, with deep expertise in LLM-based agent systems

* Production experience building agentic platforms - multi-agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, MCP/ACP protocols

* Strong systems design skills - you've built platforms that handle millions of requests with high reliability

* Experience with payment APIs, authentication flows , or financial transaction systems

* Familiarity with the emerging agent protocol landscape and LLM tool-use patterns at scale

* Published work, patents, or open-source contributions in agentic AI is a plus

Subsidiary:

Pay Pal

Travel Percent:

0

* The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

San Jose, California | ($ - $ Annually)

Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:

No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

Pay Pal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications,…