DevOps Engineer

PayPal; Elizabeth (NJ); On-site; USD 124,000 - 171,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Growth opportunities

Job summary

PayPal, Inc. in Elizabeth, NJ seeks a part-time DevOps Engineer to own and improve GitOps-based workflows in production.

You’ll diagnose bugs reported by users and monitoring tools, trace systems, and maintain CI/CD infrastructure across NJ teams, while mentoring peers and contributing to a healthy code-review culture. You’ll work in a setting that values practical impact over busywork, with an emphasis on observability, documentation clarity, and responsible cost management.

Qualifications

• The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard
• An Elizabeth network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
• Fluency across GitOps and GitLab CI, with strong opinions on both
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Trace a technology number back through GitOps services until it finally adds up
• Reverse-engineer the delightfully-weird Communication format PayPal inherited and never documented
• Catch the small-but-mighty Observability regression in staging before it ever reaches Elizabeth customers
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across NJ engineering teams
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Watch Cost Optimization error budgets and pump the brakes before Elizabeth, NJ burns through them
• Spot the performance-driven Communication anti-pattern in review before it spreads through PayPal

Skills

GitOps

GitLab CI

Mentor engineers

Code reviews

Observability

CI/CD infra

Job description

If you love writing clean, performant GitOps code that runs in production, this part-time role in Elizabeth, NJ was made for you. Picture this: a part-time DevOps Engineer seat in Elizabeth, paying $124,000 - $171,000, where 5 years of doing the work earns you real say over how it gets done.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Trace a technology number back through GitOps services until it finally adds up
• Reverse-engineer the delightfully-weird Communication format PayPal inherited and never documented
• Catch the small-but-mighty Observability regression in staging before it ever reaches Elizabeth customers
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across NJ engineering teams
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Watch Cost Optimization error budgets and pump the brakes before Elizabeth, NJ burns through them
• Spot the performance-driven Communication anti-pattern in review before it spreads through PayPal

What You'll Bring

• The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard
• An Elizabeth network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
• Fluency across GitOps and GitLab CI, with strong opinions on both
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation

PayPal has become the design-led name technology buyers across NJ bring up when someone asks who actually knows Observability. You won't find performance theater here; we care what you shipped, not how busy you looked.

The compensation here starts at $124,000 - $171,000, paired with unlimited PTO and a manager committed to your professional growth.

We just reopened this DevOps Engineer req and are eager to meet new people.