Staff Engineer - Google Workspace

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:

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Staff Engineer to help lead the design, implementation, and governance of a hybrid Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 (M365) environment. This role will play a key part in shaping our digital workplace strategy, enabling seamless collaboration, productivity, and user experience across a globally distributed workforce.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional position that will partner with IT leadership, Security, Compliance, Change Management, and end-user support teams to successfully deliver a hybrid productivity suite ecosystem that aligns with enterprise goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture and Strategy
- Design and implement a scalable, secure, and efficient hybrid Google Workspace + M365 architecture.
- Evaluate and define interoperability use cases across productivity tools (e.g., Gmail vs. Outlook, Drive vs. OneDrive, Meet vs. Teams).
- Define migration paths, co-existence models, and long-term roadmap for collaboration services.

Program Delivery:
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of the hybrid deployment program, including planning, execution, change management, and rollout strategies.
- Serve as technical lead and escalation point for design decisions, project risks, and delivery issues.

Cross-Platform Integration
- Develop and manage strategies for coexistence, directory sync, single sign-on (SSO), identity management, and data retention between platforms.
- Ensure smooth integration of shared services such as calendaring, messaging, and file sharing.

Governance & Security
- Define and enforce governance models for licensing, user provisioning, compliance, and data residency.
- Partner with IT Security and Legal teams to ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) across both platforms.

Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, use cases, and collaboration pain points.
- Develop documentation, training material, and change adoption strategies tailored to different user personas.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the organization's network and security infrastructure to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Architect and integrate networks across multiple business units and diverse cloud environments, ensuring seamless connectivity and scalability.
• Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability