Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CAScottsdale, AZAustin, TX
Salary
$143,500–$212,850 / yr
Posted
55 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 1, 2027

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PayPal is a leading global digital wallet and online payment system, founded in 1998, that allows individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage funds securely in over 200 markets.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

The Sr. Software Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps joins the Venmo team to drive the scalability and reliability of AWS cloud infrastructure. As a key contributor to the AI Tooling initiative, you will design and build intelligent systems, including LLM-powered runbook assistants, intelligent alerting, and autonomous remediation tools to enhance engineering productivity. You will lead technical tasks, mentor junior engineers, and manage the full software development lifecycle. The role requires proficiency with AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Bash, Python, and Go. You must also possess experience with generative AI frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and OpenAI API, alongside prompt engineering and RAG techniques. This position solves the challenge of reducing operational toil through automated, AI-assisted infrastructure workflows and secure CI/CD pipelines.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build AI-powered tools like LLM-powered runbook assistants and intelligent alerting systems for cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop AI-assisted automation pipelines to reduce toil in provisioning, scaling, and deployment workflows.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms.
  • Build and maintain internal AI platforms and APIs for other engineering teams to leverage LLM and ML capabilities.
  • Act as a project leader by defining designs, identifying stakeholders, and coordinating the work of other engineers.
  • Mentor junior engineers and lead by example in improving production operations and engineering rigor.
  • Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures to ensure infrastructure stability.
  • Establish best practices for responsible AI use, including safety, evaluation, and observability of AI-generated outputs.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field of study.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in software development or a related field.
  • 3+ years of experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 as part of a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team.
  • Extensive hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting infrastructure for global-scale services (AWS experience preferred).
  • Deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS or similar cloud providers.
  • Hands-on programming and scripting skills in Python, Java, Bash, and Go.
  • Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs or generative AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API, Amazon Bedrock).

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