PayPal
Staff Software Engineer
$160K–$262K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years relevant experience; the posting also states 5+ years development experience. Minimum qualification allows any equivalent combination of education and experience instead of the stated degree-and-experience combination.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Build and support PayPal’s next-generation cloud and container platform, improving its efficiency, reliability, performance, and operations.
What you'll do
- Lead or coordinate engineering work and improve technical standards, structures, and processes.
- Develop platform automation, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting; troubleshoot platform and production issues and support developer and operations teams.
- Help drive best practices for PaaS/CaaS and support 24/7/365 on-call operations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Expertise in Golang and in Java or C/C++.
- Cloud-provider experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; hands-on Cloud Ops experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or pulumi and automation.
- Expertise in shell scripting, strong Linux knowledge, container experience with docker or containerd, and working knowledge of a listed coordination system and cluster manager.
Nice to have
- Experience building highly available production platforms with no-downtime rollouts.
- Contribution to open-source projects.
Pay
San Jose, California: ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually) USD base salary; Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
Golang, Java, C/C++, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, pulumi
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