The Developer Platforms Engineering team at PayPal focuses on enabling engineering teams to build, deploy, and manage their applications with improved velocity, reliability, and scalability. The Developer Platforms Lead Architect drives the vision for Developer Experience by building tools, frameworks, and environments that empower PayPal’s engineering teams to thrive.
Requirements
- Proven experience with modern CI/CD architectures, developer environment tooling, and internal developer platform solutions like Harness, Jenkins, and GitHub EMU.
- Expertise in designing and implementing scalable integration patterns (API management, GraphQL architecture, etc.).
- Familiarity with tools and frameworks such as Kong API Gateway, JFROG Artifactory, UrbanCode Velocity, JVM frameworks (Java/JavaScript), messaging systems, and Datadog for observability.
- Experience with developer environments such as test and staging systems, load balancing strategies, and monitoring systems for developer success.
- Ability to drive technical strategy, governance frameworks, and architectural decision-making with a focus on developer productivity.
- Familiarity with AI capabilities to augment developer platforms and productivity strategies is a plus.
- Strong understanding of systems design, enterprise architecture principles, distributed systems, and developer-centric environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the Long-Term Architecture (LTA) for Developer Platforms and Experience, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
- Develop a vision and roadmap for Developer Platforms and ensure alignment across Infrastructure, Cloud, SRE and AI/ML domains.
- Architect scalable integration patterns for internal Developer Platforms, test environments, CI/CD pipelines, and other productivity engineering solutions.
- Develop and maintain technical standards, architectural blueprints, and design patterns for internal developer tools.
- Design and lead the implementation of developer-focused solutions such as portals, API management/gateway integrations (e.g., Kong, GraphQL), and environments for full-cycle development.
- Drive enhancements in CI/CD environments with tools like Harness (current), Jenkins (legacy), GitHub EMU, and JFROG Artifactory.
- Build and enhance internal developer portals, consolidating workflows and orchestrating developer environments such as staging and sandbox layers.
Other
- 12+ years of experience in development, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles, with at least 5 years focused on Developer Platforms or Developer Productivity Engineering.
- Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in high-availability and mission-critical environments.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
- You are a visionary architect with deep expertise in Developer Platforms and Developer Productivity Engineering.
- You bring a blend of technical acumen and leadership abilities, leveraging tools, processes, and collaboration to deliver best-class developer-centric solutions.
