Staff Software Engineer, Database & Caching Infrastructure
Core
Lead database and caching infrastructure projects, coordinate engineering teams, and drive architectural decisions for PayPal's global payment network.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Database & Caching Infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable, reliable database and caching systems supporting high-throughput payment transactions.
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Distributed Systems
Required skills
System architecture, technical leadership, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, root cause analysis, technical debt reduction
Preferred skills
Backend development (Java, Go, Python), RESTful services, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), relational and NoSQL databases, caching solutions (Redis, Aerospike, Hazelcast), messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ), containers and Kubernetes, observability, large-scale data migrations
