Software Engineer, Routing Platform

The Company\n\nPayPal 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. \n\nWe 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.\n\nWe 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. \n\nOur 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 \u2013 and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.\n\nJob Summary:\n\nPayPal\u0027s Routing Platform team maintains the L7 routing infrastructure that sits at the ingress boundary of PayPal\u0027s network, processing over 9 billion API calls daily with zero-downtime availability. We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join our team and help drive the modernization of our routing infrastructure \u2014 specifically leading the migration of existing Golang and Java-based routing platforms to the next-generation next-generation Kubernetes-native API gateway platform platform. \nThis is a high-impact role where your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of PayPal\u0027s routing systems.\n\nJob Description:\n\nEssential Responsibilities: \n\n * Assist in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based systems to support scalable and reliable applications.\n * Analyze and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems within cloud environments.\n * Develop and maintain automated processes to streamline deployment, configuration, and monitoring of cloud-based infrastructure.\n * Utilize monitoring tools to ensure the health and performance of applications, addressing any issues promptly to maintain reliability.\n * Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements.\n * Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems efficiently in response to business needs and traffic demands.\n * Investigate and resolve system-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent system availability.\n * Contribute to the evaluation and integration of cloud services and tools to enhance infrastructure capabilities.\n * Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems, configurations, and operational procedures to support team collaboration and knowledge sharing.\n\n\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n * 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor\u2019s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.\n\n\n\nAdditional Responsibilities \u0026 Preferred Qualifications:\n\nThis job is reused, please ignore the Job Description provided in the field above. 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Thank you! \n \nWhat You\u0027ll Do\n\n * 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\n\n * Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native routing configurations, policies, and automation tooling including rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic shaping\n\n * Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, workload identity, and claims-based routing to enable secure service-to-service communication\n\n * Develop and maintain observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting to ensure platform health\n\n * Partner with cross-functional teams to validate routing requirements and ensure business continuity\n\n * Contribute to self-service automation capabilities to reduce manual operational overhead across routing systems\n\n * Participate in on-call rotations and support operational reliability of the Routing Platform\n\n\n\n\nWhat We\u0027re Looking For\n\n * 1+ year of software engineering experience with a focus on platform engineering and API gateway systems\n\n * Proficiency in Golang and Java, with experience maintaining or migrating production-grade services\n\n * Familiarity with API gateway platforms \u2014 experience with Envoy, Istio, Gloo Gateway, or kgateway is a strong plus\n\n * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies (GKE, EKS, or equivalent)\n\n * Experience with modern security protocols including JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and zero-trust principles in API gateway or service mesh environments\n\n * Experience with performance benchmarking, latency analysis, and capacity planning for high-throughput distributed systems\n\n * Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Jenkins, or similar)\n\n * Strong understanding of networking concepts: gRPC, TLS, load balancing, and traffic management\n\n * Experience with observability stacks such as DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have\n\n * Experience with large-scale platform migrations in a high-traffic production environment\n\n * Familiarity with Helm, Terraform, or GitOps-based deployment workflows\n\n * Prior experience contributing to or working alongside open-source API gateway projects such as Envoy or kgateway\n\n * Background in fintech or payments infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nWhy Join Us\n\n * Own and influence architecture decisions on infrastructure that processes billions of dollars in transactions daily\n\n * Be part of a team driving meaningful cloud modernization with real ownership and impact at one of the world\u0027s largest payment platforms\n\n * Collaborate with industry-leading technology partners on cutting-edge API gateway and cloud-native infrastructure\n\n * Grow your career within PayPal\u0027s engineering organization with competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities to lead high-visibility initiatives \n\n\n\n\n\nSubsidiary:\n\nPayPal\n\nTravel Percent:\n\n0\n\n-\n\nThe 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:\n\nPrimary Location | Pay Range:\n\nAustin, Texas | ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually)\n\nAdditional Location(s) | Pay Range:\n\nNo other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.\n\nAdditional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.\n\nPayPal 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 \n\nFor the majority of employees, PayPal\u0027s 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.\n\nOur Benefits:\n\nAt PayPal, we\u2019re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can\u2019t do this without our most important asset-you. That\u2019s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing\u2014physical, emotional, and financial\u2014delivering 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.\n\nWho We Are:\n\nClick Here to learn more about our culture and community.\n\nCommitment to Diversity and Inclusion \n\nPayPal 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].\n\nBelonging at PayPal:\n\nOur 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.\n\nAny general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community. \n\nWe know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don\u2019t hesitate to apply.\n