Software Engineer, Routing Platform
Job Description
**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. 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 Summary:**
PayPal's Routing Platform team maintains the L7 routing infrastructure that sits at the ingress boundary of PayPal's 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 — specifically leading the migration of existing Golang and Java\-based routing platforms to the next\-generation next\-generation Kubernetes\-native API gateway platform platform.
This is a high\-impact role where your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of PayPal's routing systems.**Job Description:**
**Essential 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 within cloud environments.
* Develop 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 security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements.
* Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems efficiently in response to business needs and traffic demands.
* Investigate and resolve system\-related 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.
**Minimum Qualifications:**
* 1\+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
**Additional Responsibilities \& Preferred Qualifications****:**
**This job is reused, please ignore the Job Description provided in the field above. Use what is provided in this text field instead. Thank you!**
**What You'll Do**
* 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
* Design, develop, and maintain cloud\-native routing configurations, policies, and automation tooling including rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic shaping
* Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, workload identity, and claims\-based routing to enable secure service\-to\
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 Summary:**
PayPal's Routing Platform team maintains the L7 routing infrastructure that sits at the ingress boundary of PayPal's 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 — specifically leading the migration of existing Golang and Java\-based routing platforms to the next\-generation next\-generation Kubernetes\-native API gateway platform platform.
This is a high\-impact role where your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and scalability of PayPal's routing systems.**Job Description:**
**Essential 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 within cloud environments.
* Develop 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 security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business and technical requirements.
* Evaluate and implement strategies to scale systems efficiently in response to business needs and traffic demands.
* Investigate and resolve system\-related 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.
**Minimum Qualifications:**
* 1\+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
**Additional Responsibilities \& Preferred Qualifications****:**
**This job is reused, please ignore the Job Description provided in the field above. Use what is provided in this text field instead. Thank you!**
**What You'll Do**
* 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
* Design, develop, and maintain cloud\-native routing configurations, policies, and automation tooling including rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic shaping
* Implement modern authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, workload identity, and claims\-based routing to enable secure service\-to\
Posted: 2026-03-26