Sr Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

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 :

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering – Center of Excellence (CoE) to establish, lead, and scale PayPal’s SRE CoE. This leader will drive global standards, best practices, and innovative reliability solutions across PayPal’s engineering ecosystem. The role requires a proven leader who can combine technical depth, operational excellence, and organizational leadership to build high-performing teams and partner with senior stakeholders across engineering, product, and infrastructure.

Job Description :

Essential Responsibilities :

• Manage and mentor a team of site reliability engineers, setting performance objectives, providing technical guidance, and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Oversee the execution of reliability initiatives, ensuring critical systems maintain high availability, resilience, and performance at scale.
• Work with engineering, operations, and product teams to ensure seamless integration of reliability best practices into the development, deployment, and operational processes.
• Lead incident management activities, including coordination of response efforts, root cause analysis, and implementing solutions to prevent future incidents.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to system reliability, availability, and performance, reporting results to leadership regularly.
• Promote and drive automation within the site reliability engineering team, ensuring processes are streamlined and systems operate with minimal manual intervention.
• Manage capacity planning efforts, ensuring the scalability of systems and the ability to handle increasing traffic and resource demands effectively.
• Ensure the development and testing of disaster recovery plans and procedures, minimizing downtime in the event of a failure.
• Lead career development and mentorship efforts for team members, ensuring engineers have the tools and opportunities to grow their skills and advance their careers.
• Work closely with leadership to align site reliability engineering goals with broader organizational objectives, ensuring engineering efforts support business continuity and growth.

Expected Qualifications :

Preferred Qualification :

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

Build and lead PayPal’s SRE Center of Excellence , shaping the vision, charter, and execution strategy.

Define global standards for reliability, observability, performance, and incident response across PayPal’s platforms.

Act as a thought leader for modern SRE practices, automation-first operations, and resilience engineering.

Operational Excellence

Drive reliability frameworks, playbooks, and governance models to ensure consistency and maturity across all SRE functions.

Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to reduce toil, improve system availability, and optimize cost-to-serve .

Oversee the development of metrics and KPIs to measure and improve operational performance.

Innovation & Enablement

Foster a culture of automation, observability, chaos engineering, and continuous learning .

Enable teams to adopt emerging technologies and practices (e.g., AIOps, advanced monitoring, error budgets, service-level objectives).

Champion the adoption of DevOps and SRE principles across the engineering organization.

People Leadership

Recruit, mentor, and grow a diverse team of SRE experts and reliability advocates .

Promote a culture of collaboration, transparency, and inclusion across global teams.

Provide coaching and career development for senior engineers and managers.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in large-scale engineering, operations, or infrastructure, with at least 5+ years in leadership roles .

Proven track record of building and scaling global SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering teams in complex environments.

Deep expertise in reliability engineering, cloud-native platforms, CI / CD, monitoring / observability, and automation frameworks .

Strong understanding of resilience, fault tolerance, incident management, and disaster recovery practices .

Demonstrated success in influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional initiatives.

Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Preferred Skills

Experience with financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries .

Knowledge of AIOps, ML for operations, and modern reliability tooling .

Strong ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution .

Subsidiary : PayPal

Travel Percent :

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https : / / www.paypalbenefits.com .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. 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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https : / / www.paypalbenefits.com .

Who We Are :

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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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