Junior DevOps Engineer — Remote, Retirement Matching

Energy Innovation Corp; Elgin (IL); Remote; USD 57,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Retirement matching

Coaching for junior goals

Job summary

PayPal in Elgin, IL is seeking a DevOps Engineer to keep critical systems fast and reliable. You’ll work with Azure DevOps, ELK Stack, and RabbitMQ, while driving cost optimization and a junior-to-senior growth path in a steady, sustainable pace.

The role emphasizes owning data integrity, performing design reviews, and contributing to PayPal’s trusted tech stack with a flexible remote option.

Qualifications

• Pattern recognition across multiple technology engagements.
• Team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Decode the undocumented Networking service nobody at PayPal remembers writing
• Build the supportive ELK Stack feature that wins back the IL accounts PayPal lost
• Prototype rough Customer Service ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in PayPal's stack
• Lead ELK Stack design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Elgin, IL builds them
• Own data integrity across PayPal's RabbitMQ stores so Elgin numbers never lie
• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at PayPal can explain
• Harden PayPal's ELK Stack auth so the IL audit comes back clean

Skills

Pattern recognition

Team player

Azure DevOps

Cost optimization

Tools

Consul

ELK Stack

RabbitMQ

Job description

PayPal in Elgin, IL is seeking a DevOps Engineer to keep critical systems fast and reliable. You’ll work with Azure DevOps, ELK Stack, and RabbitMQ, while driving cost optimization and a junior-to-senior growth path in a steady, sustainable pace.

The role emphasizes owning data integrity, performing design reviews, and contributing to PayPal’s trusted tech stack with a flexible remote option.