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Software Engineer, Routing Platform

Remote · USA Full-time New today

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 reputed company-based systems to support scalable and reliable applications
  • Analyze and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems reputed company reputed company environments
  • reputed company and maintain automated processes to streamline deployment, configuration, and monitoring of reputed company-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 reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company-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 reputed company 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 reputed company-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 reputed company 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 reputed company
  • Experience with large-scale platform migrations in a high-traffic production environment
  • Familiarity with reputed company, 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

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

Company Overview

  • PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in reputed company, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.paypal.com/home.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • PayPal has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1144 in 2025, 917 in 2024, 775 in 2023, 921 in 2022, 1051 in 2021, 1049 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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