Veterans Preferred - Sr Staff Software Engineer, SRE

Company: PayPal
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: May 5, 2021

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. Job Description Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal's 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. What You'll Do Partner with infrastructure and SRE leadership to understand overarching business objectives and help SRE team leads translate those into actionable plans. Help the SRE teams define technology and business strategies that deliver iterative enhancements to the tools and processes that improve availability, observability and scalability. Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives. Collaborate with product owners to establish SLOs for the compute, networking and storage platforms. Lead by doing and meaningfully contributing to engineering teams' production operations improvements. Develop tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration via code. Coach/mentor technical leads/engineers on design principles and SRE best practices. Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices. What We're Looking For Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science or related field of study 10 years' experience in software development or a related field 10 years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 Deep hands-on experience with designing and implementing infrastructure to support global-scale services Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider): Networking and routing (VPC, Direct Connect, VPN) Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash) Hands-on experience with: Web servers and proxies: Envoy, NGINX Containers & container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Contour Databases: Mysql, AWS Aurora, Redis Experience mentoring and developing engineers Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience AWS Solutions Architect preferred What You'll Do Partner with infrastructure and SRE leadership to understand overarching business objectives and help SRE team leads translate those into actionable plans . Help the SRE teams define technology and business strategies that deliver iterative enhancements to the tools and processes that improve availability, observability and scalability . Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives. Collaborate with product owners to establish SLOs for the compute, networking and storage platforms. Lead by doing and meaningfully contributing to engineering teams' production operations improvements. Develop tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration via code. Coach/mentor technical leads/engineers on design principles and SRE best practices. Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices. What We're Looking For Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science or related field of study 10 years' experience in software development or a related field 10 years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 Deep hands-on experience with designing and implementing infrastructure to support global-scale services Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider): Networking and routing (VPC, Direct Connect, VPN) Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash) Hands-on experience with: Web servers and proxies: Envoy, NGINX Containers & container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Contour Databases: Mysql, AWS Aurora, Redis Experience mentoring and developing engineers Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience AWS Solutions Architect preferred We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom. PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisitionpaypal.com. R0069721

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