PayPal is looking to redefine how people think about payments by creating a product that delivers an outstanding user experience while empowering people to connect seamlessly. The Sr. Staff Software Engineer will be instrumental in shaping the technical vision, strategy, and operational effectiveness of Venmo's infrastructure and cloud services to advance its capacity to deliver delightful, scalable, and secure user experiences to millions of people globally.
Requirements
- 7+ years operating distributed applications at scale (24x7x365) within Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or SRE frameworks.
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, with a proven track record of leading teams through high-impact technical initiatives.
- Deep expertise with designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting complex, large-scale infrastructure systems.
- Extensive, hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS offerings (AWS or similar cloud providers).
- Advanced proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Python, Java, Bash, and Go.
- In-depth experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Experience with synthetic testing and vulnerability scanning to ensure secure systems delivery.
Responsibilities
- Contribute, refine, and drive the strategic direction of multiple technical domains, leading the highest-impact initiatives critical to Venmo's infrastructure roadmap.
- Act as the key visionary and hands-on contributor to ensure the team's delivery and scalability goals align with engineering excellence standards.
- Enable cross-team collaboration to achieve seamless delivery of cloud-native applications powered by AWS services, Kubernetes (EKS), and container-based solutions.
- Provide expert-level guidance on optimizing infrastructure for high growth and robust reliability while also handling cost efficiency.
- Evangelize and implement Cloud Engineering DevOps practices, ensuring CI/CD pipelines, microservice testing frameworks, and secret management systems operate securely and efficiently.
- Advance the team’s capabilities in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), enabling automation, secure releases, and vulnerability prevention.
- Drive efforts to recognize and adopt emerging technologies and architectures that unlock technical potential and align with Venmo’s long-term objectives.
Other
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
- Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
- Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
- Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
