Staff Cloud Networking & Infra Engineer

PayPal Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Cloud Network & Routing initiatives across Venmo and PayPal's infrastructure. You will architect, implement, and optimize CDN, WAF, and ingress components, mentoring engineers and collaborating with security and SRE teams.

Join a hybrid work environment with strong emphasis on reliability, scale, and secure edge delivery, and help shape the future of PayPal's cloud network strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science or related field.
• 7+ years software development or related field.
• 5+ years operating distributed cloud network or edge infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives across cloud networking, routing, CDN, and edge security.
• Define CDN/edge delivery strategy for performance and cost efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and raise networking standards across teams.
• Own architecture of ingress, proxy, and load-balancing services.

Skills

Cloud networking

AWS

Envoy

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Docker

CDN

WAF

Leadership

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Envoy

Contour

NGINX

Terraform

CDK

Job description

PayPal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Cloud Network & Routing initiatives across Venmo and PayPal's infrastructure. You will architect, implement, and optimize CDN, WAF, and ingress components, mentoring engineers and collaborating with security and SRE teams.

Join a hybrid work environment with strong emphasis on reliability, scale, and secure edge delivery, and help shape the future of PayPal's cloud network strategy.