Principal 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:

Job Description:

PayPal, Inc. seeks Principal Software Engineer in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, secure, and configurable identity solutions that meet the needs of PayPal’s customers and stakeholders. Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design, and Engineering to design, propose, discuss, and refine new features and functionality. Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative identity solutions that meet organizational needs. Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies, and trends. Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality, reduction in tech debt, and building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering effectiveness. Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, and other types of tech debt remediation. Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice. Work with standards-defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps, provide inputs on platform gaps, and contribute to roadmap planning to build a world-class CIAM platform. Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution. Partial telecommuting is permitted from within a commutable distance. 

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related field plus fifteen years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.  

Special Skill Requirements:

1. Business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures. (8 yrs)

2. IAM Principles: Experience and deep understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts, including authentication, authorization, user lifecycle management, and access control (Role-based / Attribute-based / Policy-based Based Access Controls). (8 years)

3. Experience with Identity management technologies, protocols, and standards, and designing solutions for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance. (8