Senior DevOps Engineer - Kafka Specialist

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

- Design, implement and operate data infrastructure’s initiatives to provide secure, scalable, reliable and performant platform to Venmo product, analytics and the other infrastructure teams
- Automate provisioning, management and monitoring solutions for the supported data infrastructure
- Build and implement scalable and reliable data pipeline architecture to optimize overall performance.
- Build tools that help users leverage our data into actionable insights to improve our customers’ experiences, operational efficiency, and business performance.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure need.
- Collaborate with teammates on planning and execution of initiatives.
- Build and implement message streaming solutions for Venmo applications with AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc
- Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff
• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures
• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
• May contribute to code & design reviews

Expected Qualifications:

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job Description Summary:
The Venmo Data Infrastructure team supports Venmo’s internal and customer impacting data movements and message streaming infrastructure. Venmo Data Infrastructure team is actively engaged in partnering with development groups, platform and infrastructure teams, providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design as well as an advocate for analyzing and resolving customer and performance issues at scale.

Job Description:
What you'll do -

• Design, implement and operate data infrastructure’s initiatives to provide secure, scalable, reliable and performant platform to Venmo product, analytics and the other infrastructure teams
• Automate provisioning, management and monitoring solutions for the supported data infrastructure
• Build and implement scalable and reliable data pipeline architecture to optimize overall performance.
• Build tools that help users leverage our data into actionable insights to improve our customers’ experiences, operational efficiency, and business performance.
• Build and implement message streaming solutions for Venmo applications with AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc
• Collaborate with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure need.
• Collaborate with teammates on planning and execution of initiatives.
• Process, extract and manage relational databases and systems such as query authoring (SQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Create large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelors and/or master's in computer science or related field of study
• 3+ years' experience in software development or a related field
• 3+ years' experience operating on-prem/cloud databases/data-warehouses and/or distributed systems 24x7x365
• Experience with operating/maintaining message streaming solutions like AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc.
• Ability to troubleshoot problems
• Hands-on experience with designing and implementing infrastructure to support global-scale services
• Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider):
• Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
• Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash)
• Hands-on experience with big data operations including, but not limited-to- AWS S3, AWS DMS, AWS SQS, Luigi, AWS EKS, Apache Spark, AWS Glue.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Understanding of TLS/mTLS protocols from the application’s perspective (server certificates, client authentication etc) is a plus
• AWS Solutions Architect is a plus
• Primary Location | Pay Range :San Jose, California | ($143,500 - $212,850 Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)

Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:

Austin, Texas: ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually)

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit .

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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