The Developer Platforms Engineering team at PayPal needs to enable engineering teams to build, deploy, and manage their applications with improved velocity, reliability, and scalability. The Domain Architect for Enterprise DevOps will drive the vision for Developer Experience of DevOps Tools, CI/CD and Test environments to empower PayPal's engineering teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience with modern CI/CD architectures, developer environment tooling, and internal developer platform solutions like Harness, Jenkins, and GitHub EMU.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of systems design, enterprise architecture principles, distributed systems, and developer-centric environments.
- Explore AI and ML-enabled technologies for code analysis, test automation, and developer productivity insights.
- Familiarity with AI capabilities to augment developer platforms and productivity strategies is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Champion developer-centric practices across PayPal’s engineering organization while managing technical debt related to CI/CD, test environments, and developer portals
- Serve as a thought leader advocating for engineering best practices for Developer Platforms.
- Guide the team in architecture reviews, including High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
- Guide teams dealing with incident management, RCA processes, and overarching developer ecosystem strategies.
- Partner with the DevOps Leadership team and engineers to foster collaboration, eliminate inefficiencies, and reduce duplicate efforts.
- Mentor teams on scalable development strategies and foster a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.
- Drive enhancements in CI/CD environments with tools like Harness (current), Jenkins (legacy), GitHub EMU, and JFROG Artifactory.
Other
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 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.
- Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
