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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** PayPal
- **Location:** Scottsdale, AZ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $125,029.0 - $151,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Confluence, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Computer Programming, Databases, System Configuration, Disaster Recovery, Perl (Programming Language), Fault Tolerance, HP Systems Insight Manager, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Oracle (Applications), Reliability Engineering, Systems Architecture, Web Platforms, Datadog, Scripting, System Availability, Software Troubleshooting, Reliability of Systems, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Splunk, Docker, Control M
- **Published:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d1ad0b088e4e04bf

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?, Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related field plus five years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems administration, or a related technical field.

Special Skill Requirements:

 1. Production Support - 5 years

 2. Incident Management - 5 years

 3. System and Application Monitoring (DataDog, Splunk)- 5 years

 4. Batch Systems and Tools (Control-M) - 5 years

 5. System Administration - 5 years

 6. Configuration Management - 5 years

 7. Infrastructure Management - 5 years

 8. UNIX/Linux Administration - 5 years

 9. Technical Documentation (Confluence) - 3 years

 10. Programming/Scripting (Shell, Perl, Python) - 3 years

 11. Database Technologies (Oracle, PostgreSQL) - 3 years

 12. Cloud Technologies (AWS, GoogleCloud) - 2 years

 13. Containerization Tools and Technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) - 2 years

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

EOE, including disability/vets.

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is

## Description

Job Duties: Monitor and analyze system metrics to ensure optimal availability, performance, and reliability of digital platforms and applications, including continuous assessment of system health indicators, performance benchmarks, and service-level objectives. Diagnose and resolve complex system issues through systematic troubleshooting methodologies, performing comprehensive root cause analysis of system failures, and implementing sustainable long-term solutions to prevent issue recurrence. Create and maintain automation scripts, tools, and operational processes designed to streamline operations, reduce manual intervention requirements, and enhance system reliability, while configuring, maintaining, and continuously improving monitoring and alerting systems to provide actionable insights into system health and performance metrics. Analyze system usage patterns and trends to accurately forecast future resource requirements, ensuring adequate system scalability, and implementing
preventive measures to avoid capacity-related performance degradation or service interruptions. Design and implement highly reliable, fault-tolerant systems that incorporate industry best practices for high availability and disaster recovery, ensure reliable software releases, and perform systematic failure simulations, to proactively identify system weaknesses and improve overall system robustness. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, operational procedures, and incident handling workflows, while partnering with development, operations, and product teams to enhance system architecture for improved performance, reliability, and scalability to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical implementation strategies. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.


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