Senior Data Platform Engineer (Cloud & Pipelines)

PayPal; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy data products and platforms. You will own data pipeline components end-to-end, from ideation through production deployment, and define architectures to meet business requirements.

Bring 2+ years in Spark, Hadoop, Python, and cloud services (AWS/GCP). You will participate in code reviews and contribute to performance tuning and load testing, while working within PayPal’s hybrid model.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor's degree with years of experience as specified in the job ad.
• Experience in building data pipelines, scalable software data products, and SDLC adherence.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, SQL, and Scala are required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy software data products and platforms for PayPal.
• Own key data pipeline components and services from ideation to production.
• Collaborate with peers to review solutions and ensure SDLC compliance.
• Performance tuning, load testing, and continual improvements.

Skills

Java programming

SQL

Apache Spark

Hadoop ecosystem

Python

AWS cloud

GCP data services

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

CI/CD pipelines

Scala programming

Education

Master’s degree in CS or related

Bachelor’s degree +5 years experience

Tools

AWS S3

EMR

Athena

Lambda

BigQuery

Dataproc

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Snowflake

Job description

PayPal in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy data products and platforms. You will own data pipeline components end-to-end, from ideation through production deployment, and define architectures to meet business requirements.

Bring 2+ years in Spark, Hadoop, Python, and cloud services (AWS/GCP). You will participate in code reviews and contribute to performance tuning and load testing, while working within PayPal’s hybrid model.