PayPal is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the service mesh infrastructure across their distributed systems, aiming to manage service-to-service communication, service discovery, security, and reliability.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or AWS App Mesh; Envoy Proxy management; strong grasp of service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, retries, and fault injection.
- Proficient in Go or Python for automation/CLI tool development; knowledgeable in concurrent programming, networking libraries, API integrations, and microservices.
- Practical knowledge of Kubernetes (CRDs, operators, networking), Docker, Helm, and GitOps.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/2, gRPC, TLS/mTLS, network policies, microsegmentation, and zero-trust security.
- Experience with distributed tracing, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), log aggregation, SLI/SLO monitoring.
- Advanced bash scripting, awk/sed usage, packet analysis (tcpdump/Wireshark), and system troubleshooting.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi); CI/CD pipeline integration.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintaining of the service mesh infrastructure across our distributed systems.
- Designing and implementing a service mesh to manage service to service communication, service discovery, security, and reliability across both on prem and cloud.
- Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
- Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
- Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
- Work collaboratively with teams across the Infrastructure and Cloud Platforms organization to ensure that the service mesh delivers on our commitments to performance, availability, and maintainability.
- Helping the team deliver on our vision of an easily managed service to service communication layer will be how you make an impact.
Other
- We work in a collaborative agile format, where team mates can contribute in many areas.
- You will be able to work on the full SDLC from design to implementation, testing, maintenance and automation
- Your work will influence technical direction and decisions as we chart the path forward toward new architecture
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues
- Guides junior engineers
