Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

PayPal is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer in Chennai.

The Company 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. W

Requirements

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

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Your way to Impact

Rather than building or maintaining infrastructure day-to-day, our team is entrusted with a broader mandate: safeguarding the reliability, resiliency, and availability of some of the world's most heavily trafficked financial platforms. We hold final decision-making authority during high-severity incidents, partner closely with executive leadership on post-incident learnings, and drive the tooling and processes that continuously strengthen our incident response capabilities.

You'll also regularly interface with executive leadership during critical incidents and post-mortems, and drive implementation of tooling that advances the Command Center's capabilities.

Site Resiliency & Infrastructure Management

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• Proactively identify and address vulnerabilities in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises infrastructure

• Review Infrastructure as Code changes for reliability risks as part of change approval process

• Identify architectural anti-patterns in Kubernetes deployments and cloud migrations

• Conduct regular disaster recovery drills and readiness tests before major events (Thanksgiving, Cyber 5, peak shopping seasons)

• Participate in situation room activities for new product rollouts

• Drive site resilience projects to enhance system reliability and uptime

• Proactively identify and address vulnerabilities in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises infrastructure

• Implement automated monitoring solutions to detect single points of failure

• Lead new datacenter and CDN certification initiatives

About PayPal

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