Staff Network Engineer

The Company

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. 

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. PayPal 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 PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal 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 PayPal, 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:

Meet our Team
This position is part of Global Corporate Networking team, supporting Corporate office and datacenter locations worldwide.

What you need to know about the role
As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for tasks and workflows around supporting, managing, and designing the network. This position requires technical experience combined with practical hands-on experience in and around network design and support.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities & Minimum Qualifications

• Participate in architecture, design, implementation, and L3 support of multi vendor production wired and wireless networks spanning multiple data enters and corporate locations.
• Deliver network implementation and remediation projects to meet demands.
  Support network availability.
• Research and develop designs and strategies to help meet our technology and automation goals.
• Collaborate with enterprise engineering teams to design and implement solutions to support vision and strategy.
• Use modern development languages such as Python, Perl, and C++, to develop tools and frameworks that drive efficiency in automation, and management of our large scale environments.
• Engage with industry and vendor partners to drive our requirements and product needs.

Preferred Qualification:

• 5+ years of  experience in network design and implementation
• 5+ years of  experience supporting networks at an L3 level
• Expert level multi-vendor experience with routing and switching equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Arista
• Expert level wireless experience, preferably Aruba networks based implementations
• Expert level VoIP implementation and operations experience on cisco based networks
• Expert level understanding of TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6
• Expert level BGP and OSPF
• Proficiency in modern development languages such as Python, C++
• Experience developing tools to drive efficiency in operations tasks and automation
• Expert level troubleshooting skills
• Understanding of Multicast technologies such as PIM and PIM-BIDIR
• Experience with QoS and implementation strategies on both Wired and Wireless
• Experience with of wireless technologies such as 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• Experience with Aruba Airwave Management Platform
• Experience optimizing and operating wireless systems and RF environments
• Experience with L2 technologies such as MLAG and VPC
• Functional knowledge of and comfort working in *nix environments
• Excellent communicatio