What you need to know about the role

If you are passionate about new technologies, have a strong technical background, and are looking for a fun environment where you can continuously expand your knowledge, you are the right fit for this role. The Production Operations team is looking for a quality-driven engineer who is ready to constantly challenge his/her mind with a mixture of troubleshooting, code developing, hacking, networking and more. The Production Operations team is a selected group of PayPal technologists always striving to do the right thing for all our internal and external customers. The team provides a unique opportunity to get not only a depth of knowledge in PayPal's payment system, but also a breadth of knowledge across PayPal products, teams and initiatives. No matter if you have previous PayPal experience or not, this is a great opportunity to expand your technical horizons and a launching platform to propel your career into your true call.

Meet our team

Welcome to the Production Operations Engineering team, the backbone of PayPal's Critical Response Engineering. Our team is a vibrant and enthusiastic mix of engineers who are dedicated to triaging issues and designing innovative solutions. We focus on implementing automation to streamline incident management processes at PayPal. By joining our team, you'll be part of a dynamic group that plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our services.

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Your way to impact

As a member of the Production Operations Engineering team, you have the unique opportunity to create a significant impact in several ways:

• Enhancing System Reliability: By quickly identifying and remediating production-impacting incidents, you ensure the high availability and reliability of PayPal’s services, directly contributing to a seamless customer experience.
• Innovating Automation: Design and implement cutting-edge automation solutions that simplify and expedite incident management processes. Your work in this area can reduce manual intervention, increase efficiency, and prevent future issues. Collaborative Problem-Solving: Engage with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Your collaborative efforts help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the organization. Proactive Monitoring: Develop and refine monitoring tools that provide actionable alerts, enabling the team to address potential issues before they impact users. Your contributions here enhance our proactive stance on system health and performance.
• Knowledge Sharing: Participate in and lead knowledge transfer sessions, sharing your expertise and insights with peers and new team members. This helps build a stronger, more knowledgeable team and prepares the next generation of engineers for success.
• By leveraging your technical skills and innovative mindset, you can drive meaningful change and support PayPal’s mission to be the world's most trusted and convenient digital payments platform.

Your day to day

Command Center Production Operations Engineers are the core of PayPal's Critical Response Engineering team. In addition to actively contributing to PayPal's monitoring and automation platforms, Prod Ops engineers will leverage their system administration knowledge and software engineering skills to quickly identify and remediate production impacting incidents.

• First responders to any system and application events/impacts that are detected in the PayPal Command Center by various monitoring systems
• Develop and enhance production monitoring and management capabilities leveraging existing platforms and tools
• Work independently and within a team to triage and remediate production system and application incidents
• Handle escalations from PayPal partners about critical issues
• Work with Technical Duty Officer and other support teams inside and outside the Command Center in troubleshooting, escalating, and resolving critical site incidents
• Identify recurring system and application issues and work with cloud teams, infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving cause
• Send external communications regarding outages to PayPal merchants, partners and customers
• Maintain accurate documentation of site incidents, including impact details, timelines, steps taken for mitigation / resolution
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for use by all of PayPal operations interacting with the live site

What do you need to bring

• System Administration Expertise: Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, including troubleshooting and managing application and system logs.
• Incident Management Experience: Ability to quickly identify, triage, and remediate production-impacting incidents, along with strong communication skills to effectively update stakeholders during major incidents.
• Knowledge of Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with tools like Datadog, SignalFx, and Splunk for monitoring and analyzing system performance.
• Nice-to-haves include
• Experience with automation and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

As part of a 12x7 team, the engineer should be willing to work 12-hour shifts scheduled between Sunday to Tuesday or Thursday to Saturday, with alternating Wednesdays. Additionally, occasional on-call support may be required

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

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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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com