Job Summary:

Job Description:

PayPal, Inc. seeks Staff Software Engineer in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Define the overall technical architecture and long-term technology roadmap for products or platforms. This includes making critical decisions about system design, technology stack choices, and ensuring the architecture can scale to handle millions of transactions while maintaining security and compliance. Design complex, distributed systems that handle financial transactions, payments processing, fraud detection, or banking operations. Establish architectural patterns, coding standards, and best practices across engineering teams, ensuring consistency and maintainability. Ensure systems meet stringent security requirements (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, etc.) and regulatory compliance standards. Design systems with security-first principles, including data encryption, access controls, and audit trails. Mentor senior engineers and architects, conduct architecture reviews, and guide multiple teams on technical decisions. Lead architectural discussions and help resolve complex technical challenges across the organization. Work closely with product managers, engineering managers, and executive leadership to align technical decisions with business goals. Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for necessary technical investments. Ensure systems are highly available, resilient, and performant- including designing for disaster recovery and business continuity. Partial telecommuting permitted from a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements: Master's degree, or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a closely related field plus six years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or a closely related field plus eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1. Large scale, distributed systems (6 year/s)

2. Software development life cycle (6 year/s)

3. Java (6 year/s)

4. Python (6 year/s)

5. GitHub (6 year/s)

6. Jenkins (6 year/s)

7. Executing large scale development projects and collaborating with product and stakeholders (2 year/s)

8. Databases (1 year/s)

9. AWS (1 year/s)

10. Microservices architecture (1 year/s)

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

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:

San Jose, California | Salary: $227,639.00-300,500.00 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Subsidiary:
PayPal

Travel Percent:
0

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

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.

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