Staff Software Engineer, Caching & DB Infra (Hybrid)

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

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a senior engineering lead to coordinate engineers, drive technical standards, and represent the company with partners and clients. You will shape architectures and guide strategic initiatives across multiple systems, mentoring teammates and improving CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes low-latency, high-throughput systems, cloud proficiency, and strong observability. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience are required, with a balanced hybrid work setup in

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience designing scalable, low-latency services.

Responsibilities

• Act as project or system leader, coordinating engineers and defining tasks.
• Drive architecture decisions and ADRs for multi-system scopes.
• Collaborate with product and tech teams to define development needs.
• Lead integration efforts on strategic initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews.
• Maintain CI/CD and automation to improve engineering velocity.

Skills

Backend language proficiency

RESTful services

Code reviews

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Caching and messaging

Kubernetes

Observability

System migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

Go

Python

Spring

GCP

AWS

Azure

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Redis

Kafka

Pulsar

RabbitMQ

SQS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

PayPal is seeking a senior engineering lead to coordinate engineers, drive technical standards, and represent the company with partners and clients. You will shape architectures and guide strategic initiatives across multiple systems, mentoring teammates and improving CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes low-latency, high-throughput systems, cloud proficiency, and strong observability. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience are required, with a balanced hybrid work setup in