Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Listed on 2026-01-12
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing
Industry:Information Technology - Internet / E-Commerce
Job Category:
Information Technology - Developer
Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, Pay Pal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives Pay Pal’s 325 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person.
Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, Pay Pal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the Pay Pal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their Pay Pal accounts in 25 currencies.
Job Description
Summary:
Pay Pal SRE is looking for a quality-driven software engineer who is ready to constantly challenge themselves by working on a wide variety of Dev Ops technologies.
The Embedded Site Reliability Engineering (eSRE) Team is a select group of Pay Pal technologists always striving to do the right thing for all our internal and external customers. The team provides a unique opportunity to learn and impact the SRE organization directly, but also Pay Pal products teams and initiatives, often working side by side with our product teams to launch new features with a focus on scalability and reliability
Job Description:
Responsibilities
As a Pay Pal SRE Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Work directly with Product Development teams on features, operations and reliability engineering, to improve the outcomes that our customers deserve. Your contributions will make a difference in the production code that serves 240+ million users and 17+ million merchants.
- Work independently and within a team to triage and remediate production system and application incidents while practicing balanced incident responses.
- Enable our customers by serving as a first-responder for our systems and applications.
- You will lead constructive retrospective sessions to help us enhance the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
- Develop and improve production monitoring and management capabilities using existing platforms and tools.
- Work with the Technical Duty Officer and other support teams internally and externally in our Command Center to take on problems, escalate, and resolve critical site incidents.
- Be the primary enabler in the reduction of Failed Customer Interactions to raise our availability to all of our users.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.
- You have a passion for software development and technology.
- Deep understanding and working knowledge of networking principles, internet fundamentals, Operating Systems and application stacks.
- You are comfortable using Linux command line.
- Familiarity with configuration management and automation (e.g. Puppet, Ansible)
- Using the "Scientific Method" to dig into problems is something you love to do.
- In addition to well-developed skills in industry standard software development languages (e.g. java, java script), you should be capable in at least one scripting language (e.g. python).
- Familiarity with infrastructure/cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) preferred
- Demonstrated expertise in Devops concepts and the SRE lifestyle
- Experience with Git Ops and OaC preferred. Demonstrable knowledge of terraform, Jenkins,…
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