Job Summary:This role is a technical leader for the API Management platform. You will coordinate the work of other engineers, set technical direction, improve existing structures and processes, and make design decisions that affect the internal and external teams building on PayPal's APIs.
Role Impact:
Serve as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the API Management platform.
Own the design, implementation, and operational health of core APIM components, including governance, lifecycle, security, and observability capabilities.
Contribute to the technical roadmap by assessing implementation alternatives, trade-offs, and recommendations.
Mentor engineers at all levels and advise senior leaders on platform systems, challenges, and strategy.
Own availability and performance of the platform and participate in on-call and incident response.
Job Description:Essential Responsibilities: - Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
Minimum Qualifications:- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience with Java, Python, or an equivalent high-level programming language.
- Deep experience designing and operating APIs at scale: GraphQL, REST, gRPC, API gateways, rate limiting, authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC), versioning, and deprecation, validation framework.
- Experience with API management products or gateway platforms.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions such as Redis, and messaging/queueing systems such as Kafka or SQS.
- Expertise building fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services on public cloud, preferably GCP or AWS.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Experience with observability, SLOs, and developer-facing platform products.
- Ability to lead projects and influence across Product, Security, Engineering Operations, and partner engineering teams.
Subsidiary:PayPal
Travel Percent:0
The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:
Primary Location | Pay Range:Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually)
Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.
Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
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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 comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing-physical, emotional, and financial-delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
