Multi-Cloud Security Engineer

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 Description Summary:
Cloud security engineer with focus on native cloud security tool management to protect and proactively identify threats and gaps within a multi cloud environment. This will include the security and operational aspects of infrastructure, build pipelines, cloud native service, stakeholder communications, consulting and advisement of peer security teams, and solution review and approval.

Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities And Preferred Qualifications
Top skills required:

• Cloud Security knowledge and best practices in GCP, AWS environments.
• Cloud security posture management understanding to provide remediation advisory.
• Cloud security evidence collection and forensics.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers in Kubernetes environments
• Collaborative mindset to work along cross-functional teams.

Nice to have skills:

• Cloud native security tools management.
• Manage CSPM solution. Preferably Wiz.
• Understanding on vulnerability management on cloud environments (such as CSPM findings, configuration findings, etc.).
• Industry cybersecurity standards (such as PCI, ISO 27000 Family, NIST, CIS, SOC 2, etc.)
• Basic DFIR processes in cloud environments.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Agile methodology knowledge and understanding.

In their day-to-day they will:

• Onboarding Cloud accounts (such as Azure, AWS & GCP) – this includes access grant, enabling policies, configuring baselines, configuring agents (if applicable), verifying health status
• Administer CSPM solution – this includes managing user roles, audit logs, manage API access
• Discover cloud assets – this includes gaining visibility and manage cloud assets
• Manage Security policies and Benchmarks – this includes configuring CSPs specific security policies, industry specific compliance policies (such as PCI), benchmarks standards (such as CIS, NIST, etc.)
• Respond to alerts – this includes monitor, investigate and triage incidents based on actionable alerts
• Manage OS hardening – this includes administer operating system baseline and hardening
• Integration with 3rd party systems – this includes manage changes, requests on integration with other systems (such as ITSM and CI/CD Tools)
• Remediation guidance – this includes providing recommendations to the stakeholders to fix the potential threats, applying configurations on the systems to maintain IT security regulatory compliance and standards
• Manage reports – this includes providing reports to the business and relevant stakeholders

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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

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

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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REQ ID R0132549