Staff Software 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:

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Job Description:

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Meet our Team:

The Observability Team at PayPal is responsible for providing a world-class platform that can collect, ingest, store, alert and visualize data from many different sources in PayPal – like application logs, infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Containers, Network, Load Balancers etc. The platform should provide functionalities that enables different teams in PayPal to gain business insights and debugging/triaging of issues in an easy-to-use and intuitive and self-service manner. The platform should be scalable to support the data needs for PayPal (fortune 500 company); be highly available at 99.9% or higher; be reliable and fault-tolerant across the different physical data centers and thousands for micro services.

Your Way to Impact:

As an engineer in our development team, you will be responsible for developing the next gen of PayPal's Observability platform, support the long-term reliability and scalability of the system and will be involved in implementations that avoid/minimize the day-to-day support work to keep the systems up and running. If you are passionate about application development, systems design, scaling beyond 99.9% reliability and working in a highly dynamic environment with a team of smart and talented engineers then this is the job for you. You will work closely with product and experience and/or development teams to understand the developer needs around observability and deliver the functions that meets their needs. The possibilities are unlimited for disruptive thinking, and you will have an opportunity to be a part of making history in the niche Observability area.

Your Day to Day:

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team. 
• Performa hands on role helping lead strategy and guidance for the observability team
• Quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and help create solutions 
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Obse