Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

An engineer specializing in creating content for Splunk so that we can gain insight on how to reduce fraud against PayPal.

PayPal is a leading technology platform and digital payments company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers with 361 million active accounts (consisting of 333 million consumer active accounts and 28 million merchant active accounts) across more than 200 markets.

PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services to improve the financial health of individuals and families and to increase economic opportunity for entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes around the world. Our goal is to enable our merchants and consumers to manage and move their money anywhere in the world, anytime, on any platform, and using any device when sending payments, paying or getting paid. We also facilitate person-to-person (“P2P”) payments through our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products and services and simplify and personalize shopping experiences for our consumers through our Honey Platform.

Threat Management proactively protects PayPal from on-going and emerging threats through data-driven decisions based on cyber intelligence data, data analytics, and threat assessments. The organization consists of multi-disciplinary subject matter experts with a broad spectrum of industry experiences and deep analytical and quantitative expertise.

Threat Management is seeking an engineer to build and maintain Splunk content, including both visual elements such as dashboards, and non-visual elements such as parsing configurations.  This position will not be responsible for administration of the Splunk application.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Implement Splunk content: Create and maintain Splunk visual content, including dashboards, panels, and other elements to visualize data.  Build and maintain non-visual elements such as search macros, parsing, field extraction and related. 

• Extend Splunk: Implement and maintain Splunk extensions such as custom search commands, integrations or applications.  Build and maintain data enrichment, such as lookups.

• Curate Splunk Data: Facilitate ingestion and parsing of new data into Splunk.  Maintain inventory and monitoring of threat management data availability.  Develop best practices and standards for threat management data in Splunk.

• Documentation: Maintain detailed documentation on threat management content and data in Splunk.  Develop training course and materials for content and data utilization.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Natural Sciences or equivalent experience

• Proficiency with Splunk search language

• 3+ years experience with Splunk

• Excellent, concise verbal and written communication

• Preferred: Knowledge of information security and/or networking concepts

• Preferred: Experience with Python3

• Preferred: Experience with regular expressions

• Preferred: Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security

• Ideal candidate is a team oriented, self-directed continual learner with a passion for asking big questions and creating solutions to find answers

We are a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect.  Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions.  We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment.  Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

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.

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

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.

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