PayPal
Site Reliability Engineer
About this role
This Site Reliability Engineer role is in PayPal's Site Health Engineering (Command Center) team in Chennai. The team is the operational and technical authority during PayPal's most critical incidents, covering brands such as Venmo, Xoom, Zettle and Braintree. The role is partly incident command: directing application and infrastructure teams, prioritising troubleshooting, and authorising actions like rollbacks and regional failovers. Day to day it also involves monitoring system health, automation, CI/CD, capacity forecasting and documentation. It suits engineers who can read infrastructure code and Kubernetes configurations and make decisions under pressure.
PayPal is hiring for Site Reliability Engineer, a full-time role based in Chennai.
Who can apply: 1+ years. Skills: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, Automation, Incident Response.
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What you'll do
- Monitor and analyze system metrics to keep platforms available, performant and reliable
- Diagnose complex issues, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes
- Create and maintain automation scripts and tools to reduce manual work
- Configure and improve monitoring and alerting tools
- Manage CI/CD pipelines for smooth software releases
- Run failure simulations such as chaos engineering and document configurations and incident workflows
What you need
- 1+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to read Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes manifests and CI/CD configurations quickly
- Ability to make sound decisions under pressure during incidents
- Location
- Chennai
- Work mode
- See listing
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Pay
- ₹15–25 LPA (Est.)
- Type
- Full-time job, Developer
- Added
- 12 October 2026
Skills
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring
- Automation
- Incident Response
"Est." = Hirastra's estimate based on market data, not an official figure.
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