PayPal is looking to build scalable systems to process and deliver high-quality product catalog data at scale, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance of backend services.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/Node.js, Python, Scala, or Golang.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience with API design and development (REST, GraphQL) and building microservices architectures.
- Proficiency with batch and streaming data technologies such as Apache Beam, Dataflow, Spark, Flink, or Pub/Sub/Kafka.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, schema design, and lifecycle management, along with modern data warehousing tools (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt).
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD and observability tooling.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable systems — from data pipelines to backend services — to process and deliver high-quality product catalog data at scale.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of backend services, with robust monitoring, alerting, and fault-tolerance mechanisms.
- Drive best practices in software engineering including testing, code reviews, observability, and documentation for both services and pipelines.
Other
- This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.
- It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and contribute to a high-performing engineering culture.
- 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.
