Data Engineer

About the job

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: What you need to know about the role-

We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems more robust and more resilient.

Meet our team

We are the Unified Integration Platform (UIP) team, PayPal’s enterprise data replication team. We replicate data at scale between data stores across PayPal, and between PayPal and external partners. Many of PayPal’s analytics, risk, finance, and product experiences depend on the data we deliver. We are a close-knit, collaborative group of engineers who care about reliability, performance, and getting things right. We own our platform from design through production. You will work on hard scale problems in a high-impact area, learn from experienced teammates, and have room to grow your technical depth. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities:

- Design and develop data pipelines for efficient data collection and processing.

- Build and maintain scalable data storage solutions.

- Ensure data quality and consistency through validation and cleansing processes.

- Implement data transformation techniques to prepare data for analysis.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and provide solutions.

- Optimize data engineering processes for performance and reliability.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :

Your way to impact

You will help keep data flowing across PayPal. The pipelines you build and run at scale feed analytics, risk models, finance reporting, and customer-facing products. Your work will: • Give teams across PayPal and our external partners fast, accurate, trustworthy data. • Make replication faster, more reliable, and cheaper as volumes grow. • Shorten the time it takes teams to onboard new data sources and targets. • Raise the bar on quality, observability, and resilience for the platform.

Your day to day

• Design, build, and maintain batch and streaming replication pipelines that move high volumes of data between on-prem and cloud data stores. • Tune pipelines for throughput, latency, and cost. • Handle schema changes, backfills, and failure recovery without data loss or duplication. • Build data quality checks, reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting. • Onboard new sources and targets with product, platform, and consuming teams. • Join design reviews, code reviews, on-call, and root-cause analysis.

What do you need to bring-

• 2–4 years of experience in data engineering or backend software engineering. • Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala, and strong SQL. • Hands-on experience with distributed data processing and streaming (Kafka, Spark, Dataflow, or similar). • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, change data capture (CDC), and cloud platforms (GCP preferred). • Understanding of data modelling, pipeline design, and performance tuning for high-volume systems. • Strong debugging skills and a sense of ownership of your work end to end. • Clear communication and a collaborative approach. • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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

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PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes.  Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately.  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 comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are: Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

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.