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Manager, System & Cloud Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, United States of AmericaFull-time$161k–$239k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineers and serve as a strategic product partner for PayPal Credit's Developer Experience (DevEx) team, owning the roadmap for platforms and tools supporting Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), consumer revolving credit, and merchant lending products.

Role type

Manager, Systems & Cloud Engineering

Builds

Cloud-native platforms, network connectivity solutions, and infrastructure for Loan Management System (Apache Fineract) and lending products on AWS and on-premises.

Domain

Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud infrastructure management, network engineering, team leadership, strategic planning, vendor relationship management, security compliance (PCI/SOX), budget management, disaster recovery, resiliency testing, stakeholder management.

Preferred skills

DevOps/SRE experience, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), observability (Datadog, Splunk), cost optimization.

Technologies

AWS, Apache Fineract, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Datadog, Splunk, JIRA

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers; design, deploy, and operate infrastructure for lending products; partner with Security, Audit, and Compliance; manage AWS budgets and vendor relationships; drive network lifecycle automation and visibility tools; translate business priorities into technical roadmaps.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership