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Senior Software Engineer

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

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based on 894 Reviews

6-11 years

Chennai

1 vacancy

Senior Software Engineer

PayPal

posted 4mon ago

Job Role Insights

Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Medical Coding Data Analytics Automation Testing Operations Backend Big Data

+ 2 more

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, on the BigData Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for design, architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable and available software which pivots the evolution of our current to the next generation platform for our PayPal Inc Big Data platform teams and transformational cloud journey for all data services and engineering of PayPal Inc (PayPal, Braintree and so on ).

Your way to impact: You will be making key technology decisions, building & maintaining large production grade distributed systems that handle petabyte scale, providing delightful experience for PayPal and Braintree customers, merchants, brainstorming innovative ideas to help our stakeholders resolve their day-to-day problems, and helping mentor engineers.

Your day to day

Build innovative, self-serviceable and scalable platforms and orchestration services to facilitate Big Data migration to public cloud in the multi-year journey of PayPal cloud journey with its subsidiaries.
Anchor major team workstreams to build and improve large-scale distributed systems, reduce complexity, increase automation and burn down technical debt.
Mentor other software engineers as a tech lead of the team
Induce best practices of coding, design and reusability. Effectively participate in code reviews.
Support production systems (Team rotation based)

What do you need to bring:

6+ years of experience in software engineering with atleast 2+ in technical leadership
2+ plus years of designing backend and mid-tier services using REST API + one of these technologies - Golang, Spring Boot, Java
Hands-on experience in tuning and writing scalable SQL queries
Design and Operational Experience with large scale production grade distributed systems
Experience with one of the major cloud providers - AWS, Azure, GCP
Experience in orchestration systems like Airflow, Argo.
Strong understanding of real time streaming technologies Spark and Kafka

Good To Have

Server-side software development experience
Experience in managing big-data infrastructure at petabyte scale

Data Analytics background to understand our stakeholders
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with monitoring/logging tools and best practices

Test-driven development (TDD)

Perks:

Open dev days: every two weeks we spend a day working on projects that interest us and help us expand our skills and knowledge
Participation in the technology community: we help cover travel and attendance costs for conferences, and we offer opportunities and tools for speaking.
Check out our Careers page for more company perks.