Staff Infrastructure Engineer - DevOps

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 Description Summary:

The Braintree Edge team manages a critical load balancing and proxying service, ensuring high availability and reliability for Braintree's global API access. The Staff Engineer role involves contributing to system architecture, technical design reviews, and team productivity improvements. Key responsibilities include performance monitoring, collaboration with engineering teams, maintaining documentation, and enhancing security practices. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of software development or DevOps experience, proficiency in Unix command line and shell scripting, familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, and a strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures, particularly within AWS and Kubernetes environments.

Job Description:

About the Team 

The Braintree Edge team manages a load balancing and proxying service at the forefront of the Braintree infrastructure. Our mission is to develop a best-in-class entry point for fast, reliable access to Braintree APIs on a global scale. The services provided by this team ensure high availability for the Braintree products that merchants use to process payments and more. We continuously focus on optimization, scalability, and stability. Our technology stack primarily consists of HAProxy with various load-balancing services, built on AWS, Cloudflare, and utilizing Kubernetes. 

 

As a Staff Engineer on the Team, You Will: 

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team productivity, agile processes, and methods to enhance efficiency. 

• Actively participate in system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of Braintree. 

• Collaborate closely with the team’s tech lead and architects to advance large initiatives. 

• Introduce advanced performance monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address potential issues. 

• Work alongside engineers both within and outside the team to develop and enhance our services.