Staff Network Engineer Backbone & Cloud

Overview

PayPal 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.

We 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.

We 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.

Our 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 – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:
This job oversees PayPal's hybrid Multi-cloud networking infrastructure, load balancers and global backbone. It handles outages, leads network design, supports system availability, deploys equipment, implements best practices, offers on-call support, manages global teams, communicates incident impacts, and creates documentation.

Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the organization's network and security infrastructure to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Architect and integrate networks across multiple business units and diverse cloud environments, ensuring seamless connectivity and scalability.
• Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability, and up-to-date configurations.
• Oversee the configuration, deployment, and management of F5 Local Traffic Managers (LTMs) and Advanced Security Modules (ASMs) to ensure seamless application delivery and security.
• Create and implement strategies for integrating cloud Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), interconnects, and direct connects, ensuring efficient and secure data flow between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the network’s scalability and resilience, ensuring it can handle growing business demands and traffic loads.
• Work closely with infrastructure, application, and security teams to ensure network designs meet cross-functional requirements and adhere to best practices.
  
  
  

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  
  

• Proficiency with leading public cloud providers network services -AWS and GCP is a must, and experience with Azure is desirable.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform for network automation, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud resource lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with open-source load balancers, especially HAProxy, including configuration, tuning, observability, and deployment automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, including Ingress, Service Mesh, CNI plugins.
• Deep hands-on expertise in cloud networking: VPC Network, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect Gateway, Interconnect, Cloud Router, VPN, and firewall rules (Security Groups, GCP Firewall).
• PrivateLink and Private Service Connect (PSC) for secure and scalable service exposure.
• Use Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability, and up-to-date configurations.
• Implement and manage network security controls using Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls, VPNs, etc in public Cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, DNS, VPN.
• Utilize network monitoring tools (e.g. LogicMonitor, Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, Splunk, Catchpoint, Nagios, etc.) to proactively identify and resolve network issues.
• Implement network changes following established change management procedures, minimizing risk and ensuring minimal impact to production services.
• Participate in incident management processes, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Adhere to security policies, procedures, and best practices, ensuring the network infrastructure meets all compliance requirements.
• Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices.
• Provide Tier 2 support for network incidents impacting our production systems, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to service. This includes on-call rotation responsibilities.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant AWS and/or GCP Networking certifications
  
  
  

• Experience with container networking (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Juniper routing and switching platforms, including Juniper MX and QFX series
• Working knowledge of networking technologies, including Layer-2 and Layer-3 protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS) operating global backbone
• Hands-on experience managing Backbone traffic engineering (MPLS, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing), public peering with ISPs, CDNs and partners.
• Juniper Service Provider certifications (JNCIS / JNCIP) are highly desirable
  
  
  

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's 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.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal 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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our 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.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

REQ ID R0134061