Software Engineer, Routing Platform
PayPal is a global leader in commerce, providing innovative payment solutions to consumers and businesses. The Routing Platform team is seeking a Software Engineer to assist in modernizing its routing infrastructure and ensuring high availability and performance of routing systems. 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 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-service communication Develop 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 manual 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 Envoy, Istio, Gloo Gateway, or kgateway is a strong plus Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies (GKE, EKS, or equivalent) Experience with modern security protocols including JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and zero-trust principles in API gateway or service mesh environments Experience with performance benchmarking, latency analysis, and capacity planning for high-throughput distributed systems Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Jenkins, or similar) Strong understanding of networking concepts: HTTP/2, gRPC, TLS, load balancing, and traffic management Experience with observability stacks such as DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus Experience with large-scale platform migrations in a high-traffic production environment Familiarity with Helm, Terraform, or GitOps-based deployment workflows Prior experience contributing to or working alongside open-source API gateway projects such as Envoy or kgateway Background in fintech or payments infrastructure Benefits Generous paid time off Healthcare coverage for you and your family Resources to create financial security and support your mental health 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 San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship PayPal has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 200 in 2026, 1138 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.