PayPal
Sr Software Engineer - CPE
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$124k-$184kDetected 4 days ago
PythonBashCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLVector DatabasesAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDatadogLLMsCommunicationCollaboration
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odds of building a lasting career here
59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level III)83
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Level I$92,1231 entry
Level II$113,7142 entries
Level III$135,3043 entries
Level IV$156,8944 entries
$11,804 more — $135,304 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $135,304 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
Employer immigration record
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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation
Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 90 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.
Green-card follow-through: 96%
Of 78 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 3 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 482 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.
Files H-1B transfers
156 transfer filings in the last year, covering 156 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.
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About the role
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues
- Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
- Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
Responsibilities
- Deliver complete solutions across all phases of the SDLC for CPE's internal platforms, based on priorities set with the CPE manager.
- Own CPE's tooling codebases as products - apply and uphold code review, testing and release practices for them, and be the named owner accountable for their state.
- Design, build and operate new services that reduce the team's toil on repetitive and manual work, including correlating operational signals that today are handled individually.
- Own the PostgreSQL schema and data layer behind CPE's retrieval platform - schema design, migrations, roles and grants, indexing and query performance.
- Advise CPE management on project-level technical issues, including build-versus-configure and sequencing decisions.
- Partner with engineering teams outside CPE to obtain the service topology and dependency knowledge CPE's tooling depends on.
- Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
- It operates with little day-to-day supervision, guides engineers writing automation alongside their operational work, and applies technical best practices to build-versus-configure decisions within its own area.
- At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy.
- 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.
Requirements
- PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years.
Nice to have
- Working fluency in both Shell scripting, Python and TypeScript.
- Most of CPE's tooling are Shell scripts and Python
- the MCP is in TypeScript.
- Production experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS and GCP are both in play - including deployment and observability.
- Operational credibility with on-call engineers: prior time on a rotation, and an understanding of the work from the inside.
- Comfort with ambiguity - much of this work has no precedent inside the team.
- PostgreSQL + pgvector or another vector store - embeddings, similarity search, index tuning.
- Retrieval systems or LLM tooling.
Compensation
- Scottsdale, Arizona: ($123,500.00 - $183,700.00 Annually)
- No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
- Primary Location | Pay Range:
- Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:
Benefits
- If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.
Company info
- 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:
- Credit Production Engineering runs 24/7 follow-the-sun support for PayPal's Financial Services platform - roughly 20 site reliability engineers across North America and APAC, with three structured handoffs a day.
- Over the past year the team has built its own operational tooling: a knowledge base over runbooks, incident history and alert events, backed by services the on-call triage tooling queries directly.
- It works and it is in daily use.
- This role is the first one dedicated to it.
- Travel Percent:
- 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:
- Primary Location |
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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 orient
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