Golang Job: Software Engineer

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary: Our mission is in providing performance engineering core skills, tools, methodologies and best practices for the various PayPal components and flows and in the process enable development teams to measure, assess and optimize code with highest performance quality when deployed to production. As one of the engineering leads for the Performance Engineering team, you will be working with a team of strong engineers that services and enables the rest of development community to quickly and reliably performance test, analyze and optimize their code changes. You will be building the next generation performance engineering platform that enables rich data insights into identifying the gaps in existing performance engineering processes and introduce, influence the culture of performance engineering disciplines within the organization. You will be focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of building products that can capture infrastructure, platform, application and database performance metrics as well as develop and manage team to achieve deep dive performance skillsets. You'll build framework that enables the rest of the development community effectively contribute with utilities that can enhance and improve the performance and reliability of various application, infrastructure components at PayPal.

Job Description:

Our mission is in providing performance engineering core skills, tools, methodologies and best practices for the various PayPal components and flows and in the process enable development teams to measure, assess and optimize code with highest performance quality when deployed to production. As one of the engineering leads for the Performance Engineering team, you will be working with a team of strong engineers that services and enables the rest of development community to quickly and reliably performance test, analyze and optimize their code changes. You will be building the next generation performance engineering platform that enables rich data insights into identifying the gaps in existing performance engineering processes and introduce, influence the culture of performance engineering disciplines within the organization. You will be focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of building products that can capture infrastructure, platform, application and database performance metrics as well as develop and manage team to achieve deep dive performance skillsets. You'll build framework that enables the rest of the development community effectively contribute with utilities that can enhance and improve the performance and reliability of various application, infrastructure components at PayPal.

You would be a great if you are a

• are a hands-on technologist. You lead by example. You drive technical conversations and participate in architectural decision-making.
• can drive change. You are passionate about driving both technology & infrastructure changes as well as cultural changes have tremendous Customer Focus. You connect with your customers to build the right solutions solving their needs.
• are extremely passionate about performance, scalability, resiliency, quality and continuously strive in improving our developer experience.
• foster innovation. Innovation flourishes in your team and around you. You are always thinking about and championing new ideas and innovations around product, process and people.
• Problem focused and provide data driven reasoning on choices for possible solutions
• Professional Skills and Knowledge:
  • Multi stack development with strong fundamentals in C++, GoLang, Java
  • Thorough understanding of all layer of computer systems, architecture and components: CPU, memory, caching, storage and networks
  • Deep understanding of fundamental system performance and scalability concepts and principles.
  • Good understanding of Operating system concepts for both baremetal, VM as well as cloud environments
  • Experience with scripting such as python, bash, etc
  • Fluency with standard linux tracing, monitoring and perf analysis tools
  • Familiarity with time series data analysis and databases with modeling experience
• Demonstrate abilities to:
  • mentor team members
  • Building a culture of innovation and delivery
  • Investigate and resolve performance problems with little or no outside guidance
  • Create, articulate and champion roadmaps and timelines
  • Work with product owners, project management and communicate clearly intent, scope and delivery
  • Think outside the box

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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.