Sr. Public Cloud Architect

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San Jose, CA
97K-234K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments
The Role
The Senior Public Cloud Architect at PayPal will design and develop Public Cloud Solutions across business units. Responsibilities include influencing decisions on public cloud engineering, creating best practices, and assisting internal engineering teams in migrating workloads seamlessly to the public cloud. The role emphasizes customer experience and effective use of public cloud technologies.
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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:

We are looking for a Senior Public Cloud Architect who will be working on designing PayPal’s Public Cloud Platform and Strategy. This position will also focus on creating and developing Public Cloud Solutions across all Business Units for PayPal, ensuring we can meet the needs of our internal customers efficiently. As a lead architect, you will work with cutting-edge cloud technologies in GCP, AWS and Azure. In addition to these you will be focusing heavily on cloud security technologies.

Job Description:

You will be influencing some of the key decisions on Public Cloud Engineering efforts, adoptions, best practices, efficiency programs in PayPal as we expand into Public Cloud. You will be instrumental in getting PayPal internal engineering teams to migrate and expand their workloads into Public Cloud in a seamless manner. 


Your way to impact

You will have the opportunity to provide great customer experience to hundreds of internal PayPal engineering teams, as they navigate the Public Cloud environment and try to use new Public Cloud technologies. 

 

Your Day to Day: 

  • Based on the Cloud use cases, design and architect appropriate Public Cloud solutions. 

  • Propose and implement solutions to make the PayPal’s Public Cloud environment optimal and efficient. 

  • Ensure the Public Cloud environment is configured with all the security controls to provide a safe and secure public cloud environment. 

  • Stays up to date on latest cloud computing technologies and trends. 

  • Be able to work well across internal engineering teams, internal customers and product managers in various geo-locations across the world 

  • Gets hands on and works on the Public Cloud customer enablement and integration with OnPrem systems. 

  • Be ready to learn new cloud technologies, test them and see how it can be used in PayPal for improving our solutions 

  • Be able to drive software solutions end to end, from design, implementation, testing to release phase. 

  • Perform and apply high quality software analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance for the PayPal core technology platform. 

  

What You Need to Bring: 

  • A successful candidate will have 10+ years of experience working in Public Cloud domain as a Cloud Architect. 

  • Working experience of Public Cloud technologies and tools which are required to build solutions in public cloud providers like GCP or AWS or Azure is preferred. 

  • Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions in all public cloud environments. 

  • Develop and enforce cloud architecture best practices to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of the cloud environment. 

  • Hands on experience with programming languages like golang/python is required

  • Hands-on experience with service mesh tools such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul in large scale deployments 

  • Eagerness to learn new technologies and partner with various teams giving PayPal Public Cloud users the best experience. 

  • A BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field is preferred but not required. 

 **We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$96900 to $234300

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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 [email protected].

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
GCP
The Company
HQ: San Jose, CA
34,450 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

HELP US REIMAGINE MONEY.

At PayPal, we believe that now is the time to democratize financial services so that moving and managing money is a right for all citizens, not just the affluent. We are driven by this purpose, and we uphold our cultural values of collaboration, innovation, wellness and inclusion as our guide for making decisions and conducting business every day. It is our duty and privilege to be customer champions and put those we serve at the center of everything we do.

We are one team that respects and values diversity of thought for everyone, everywhere, and we actively seek to create an energizing workplace that brings out the best in all of us. If you’re ready to shape the future of money, join the team at PayPal. We're proud to work here. You will be too.

PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California and its international headquarters is located in Singapore.

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