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Principal Architect - Customer Platform - Software Engineering - Product and Platform Engineering

PayPal

$188,000 - $323,950
Sep 30, 2025
San Jose, CA, USA
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PayPal is looking to evolve its globally distributed, highly resilient systems that serve millions of customers worldwide by setting the technical strategy and architecture for its Customer Platform. This includes designing a Customer Data Store, a unified, cloud-native system to consolidate customer data, enhance customer interactions, improve data accuracy, and support compliance and privacy requirements.

Requirements

  • deep expertise in microservices architecture
  • cloud-native technologies
  • customer and relationship modeling
  • distributed systems design patterns

Responsibilities

  • Sets the technology roadmap for a domain
  • Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain
  • Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies
  • Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
  • Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions
  • Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions
  • Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement

Other

  • Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • 0- Travel Percent
  • The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.
  • For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
  • We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.