Software Engineer, Routing Platform
PayPal is a global leader in commerce, providing innovative payment solutions to consumers and businesses. The Routing Platform team is seeking a Software Engineer to assist in modernizing its routing infrastructure and ensuring high availability and performance of routing 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 reputed company cloud environments
- reputed company 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 reputed company teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements
- Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems reputed company in response to business needs and traffic demands
- Investigate and resolve system-reputed company 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 reputed company Kubernetes-native API gateway platform, ensuring reputed company-downtime transitions
- Design, reputed company, and maintain cloud-native routing configurations, policies, and automation tooling including reputed company limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic shaping
- Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, workload identity, and claims-based routing to reputed company secure service-to-service communication
- reputed company 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 reputed company, 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 reputed company protocols including JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and reputed company-trust principles in API gateway or service mesh environments
- Experience with performance benchmarking, latency analysis, and reputed company planning for high-throughput distributed systems
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (reputed company, Jenkins, or similar)
- Strong understanding of networking concepts: HTTP/2, gRPC, TLS, load balancing, and traffic management
- Experience with observability stacks such as reputed company, 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-reputed company API gateway projects such as reputed company or kgateway
- Background in fintech or payments infrastructure
Benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Resources to create financial reputed company and support your mental health
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