Software Engineer, Routing Platform

PayPal is a leading global commerce company that has been transforming how money is moved and managed for over 25 years. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Routing Platform team, focusing on modernizing their routing infrastructure and ensuring high reliability and performance of their systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based systems to support scalable and reliable applications
• Analyze and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems within cloud environments
• Develop and maintain automated processes to streamline deployment, configuration, and monitoring of cloud-based infrastructure
• Utilize monitoring tools to ensure the health and performance of applications, addressing any issues promptly to maintain reliability
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements
• Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems efficiently in response to business needs and traffic demands
• Investigate and resolve system-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent system availability
• Contribute to the evaluation and integration of cloud services and tools to enhance infrastructure capabilities
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems, configurations, and operational procedures to support team collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to the technical migration of existing Golang and Java-based routing services to a next-generation Kubernetes-native API gateway platform, ensuring zero-downtime transitions
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native routing configurations, policies, and automation tooling including rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic shaping
• Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, workload identity, and claims-based routing to enable secure service-to-service communication
• Develop and maintain observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting to ensure platform health
• Partner with cross-functional teams to validate routing requirements and ensure business continuity
• Contribute to self-service automation capabilities to reduce manual operational overhead across routing systems
• Participate in on-call rotations and support operational reliability of the Routing Platform

Skills

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
• 1+ year of software engineering experience with a focus on platform engineering and API gateway systems
• Proficiency in Golang and Java, with experience maintaining or migrating production-grade services
• Familiarity with API gateway platforms — experience with Envoy, Istio, Gloo Gateway, or kgateway is a strong plus
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies (GKE, EKS, or equivalent)
• Experience with modern security protocols including JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and zero-trust principles in API gateway or service mesh environments
• Experience with performance benchmarking, latency analysis, and capacity planning for high-throughput distributed systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Jenkins, or similar)
• Strong understanding of networking concepts: HTTP/2, gRPC, TLS, load balancing, and traffic management
• Experience with observability stacks such as DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus
• Experience with large-scale platform migrations in a high-traffic production environment
• Familiarity with Helm, Terraform, or GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Prior experience contributing to or working alongside open-source API gateway projects such as Envoy or kgateway
• Background in fintech or payments infrastructure

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance

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