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:
As PayPal continues its mission to revolutionize commerce, we're looking for a Senior System and Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. In this role, you will join our mission to enable product teams by providing a secure, reliable, observable, and self-service platform that empowers developers across the organization. If you're passionate about building platforms that enable engineering teams to move faster, we'd love to hear from you!Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Oversee load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) equipment, Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms, and troubleshoot client/server issues.
- Handle proactive and reactive outages, work with vendors, and take ownership of network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis.
- Lead backbone network design and architecture for on-premises and public cloud migration, and build hybrid connectivity solutions.
- Work with business unit leadership, product managers, and customers to develop project objectives, timelines, and feature requirements.
- Support network system availability, manage network capacity, and ensure compliance with Information Security standards.
- Deploy equipment, manage SSL certificate hosting and renewal, and build infrastructure for data centers and cloud environments.
- Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices.
- Offer on-call support, monitor infrastructure and hosted services, and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Manage and influence global teams, provide guidance and support, and mentor team members in areas of expertise.
- Communicate incident impacts, risks, and mitigation plans to executives, document incident information, and create network engineering documentation and best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:
In this role, you’ll join our Cloud Platform team - a group of seven engineers from around the world who bring diverse perspectives to our work. Our culture emphasizes knowledge sharing, blameless post-mortems, and collective ownership of our platform’s success. We’re eager to grow with engineers who take initiative on complex infrastructure challenges and are passionate about building self-service tools that empower fellow engineering teams.
You Day-to-DayAs a Senior System and Cloud Engineer, you will develop and maintain tools to support product teams build and deliver solutions quickly and reliably. Additionally, you will design, set up, and codify best practices and processes to manage infrastructure and resources.
In this role, you will get the opportunity to:
Drive architectural decisions and ensure that the system architecture satisfies the needs of all the stakeholders and key system quality attributes.
Govern the infrastructure, resources and accounts in AWS
Ensure that Compliance and Security standards are adhered to.
Actively contribute and demonstrate healthy modern engineering practices.
Drive projects and implementations within our team’s areas of responsibility.
Participate in the on-call rotation for the team to ensure 24/7 availability of our services.
Advanced knowledge on Linux, networking, databases
Experienced with AWS Cloud.
Are versed in container orchestration (Kubernetes or ECS).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Cloud formation, AWS CDK
A solid expertise in CI/CD systems. We primarily use GitHub Actions and CircleCI.
Programming background (preferably Python, Golang or Bash).
Conforming to best practices in Cybersecurity eg: IAM, WAF, DDoS
Are familiar with distributed systems
Experience with Java or Kotlin and related frameworks
Worked with PCI-DSS compliant infrastructures.
Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Splunk
Interested in knowing more? Don't hesitate to apply and/or let's talk – we'd love to get to know you!
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Subsidiary:
PayPalTravel Percent:
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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:
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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.
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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.
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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.






