Sr System & Cloud Engineer

Overview

As a Sr System & Cloud Engineer in PayPal's Public Cloud Engineering team, you will help build a robust and scalable multi-cloud platform to support PayPal's adoption of public cloud services from AWS, GCP and Azure.

What you'll do

• Oversee load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) equipment, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms, and troubleshoot client/server issues.
• Handle proactive and reactive outages, work with vendors, and take ownership of network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis.
• Lead backbone network design and architecture for on-premises and public cloud migration, and build hybrid connectivity solutions.
• Work with business unit leadership, product managers, and customers to develop project objectives, timelines, and feature requirements.
• Support network system availability, manage network capacity, and ensure compliance with Information Security standards.
• Deploy equipment, manage SSL certificate hosting and renewal, and build infrastructure for data centers and cloud environments.
• Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices.
• Offer on-call support, monitor infrastructure and hosted services, and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Manage and influence global teams, provide guidance and support, and mentor team members in areas of expertise.
• Communicate incident impacts, risks, and mitigation plans to executives, document incident information, and create network engineering documentation and best practices.
• Develop efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources; deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create and review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
• Provide recognized technical and business leadership and deep technical support across a range of functionality.
• Manage workload and other assignments efficiently while resolving time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
• Participate in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

What you'll need

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4-8 years of experience in developing large scale enterprise applications involving frontend and backend.
• Experience in developing intuitive and aesthetically pleasing frontend using JavaScript/React.
• Experience in developing backend REST API based services using Golang.
• Experience in using cloud native services of AWS, GCP and Azure such as cloud functions, pubsub and cloud storage.
• Experience in infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Experience in writing unit and integration tests for frontend (JavaScript) and backend (Golang).
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting and problem resolution skills.
• Believes in Agile development and is comfortable with SCRUM processes.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of basic Linux commands and shell scripting.
• Knowledge of continuous delivery and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD.
• AI experience.

Details

• Locations: Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office and 2 days at your choice of PayPal office or home workspace (for the majority of employees).
• Travel: 0%.
• On-call support is part of the role.