Cloud Platform Software Engineer

Overview

As a Cloud Platform Software Engineer, you will help build and run cloud infrastructure and platforms across a multi-cloud environment. You will support applications serving millions of customers and processing payments worldwide.

What you'll do

• Implement tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff.
• Follow well-established internal conventions and standard procedures.
• Apply internal standards and processes to make technical decisions.
• Collaborate with peers, manager, and project lead to understand tasks and review solutions.
• Contribute to code and design reviews.
• Adapt to new cloud and container platform technologies, build and release processes, and production topologies and architecture.
• Identify gaps in platform and process and work with the team to improve tools and workflows.
• Develop automation, dashboards, and monitoring and alerting to help reduce time to detect (TTD) and time to resolve (TTR) issues.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues as they surface.
• Support developer and production operations teams to unblock them and resolve customer-impacting incidents.
• Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation supporting production operations.
• Learn and adopt new technologies that improve platform efficiency, reliability, and performance.

What you'll need

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance services.
• Proficiency in Golang.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi and automation.
• Working knowledge of shell scripting.
• Strong Linux systems fundamentals.
• Familiarity with distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper, etcd, or Consul.
• Working knowledge of cluster managers such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Strong understanding of fundamental distributed systems principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identify performance bottlenecks.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Docker or containerd.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Experience running highly available, zero-downtime production platforms.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Balanced hybrid work model: 3 days in the office and 2 days at either the PayPal office or home workspace.
• Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation supporting production operations.
• Travel: 0%.