Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

PayPal

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXScottsdale, AZChicago, ILSan Jose, CA
Salary
$130,500–$193,600 / yr
Posted
55 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
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 Business Continuity team at Venmo to ensure the resilience and recoverability of critical systems. This role involves delivering complete solutions across the entire Software Development Lifecycle, including designing, implementing, and operating infrastructure. You will build and operate systems to withstand failure scenarios, manage disaster recovery automation, and lead chaos engineering experiments. Key responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, troubleshooting incidents, and developing tools to manage configuration as code. The technical stack includes AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Bash, Python, and Go. You will solve complex reliability problems by defining resilience metrics, SLOs, and recovery objectives to protect the availability of every product and service within the cloud environment.

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What you'll do

  • Deliver complete software solutions across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Design, implement, and operate chaos engineering experiments to identify and remediate system weaknesses.
  • Build and maintain disaster recovery automation, runbooks, and infrastructure across the AWS cloud environment.
  • Develop and improve tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration as code.
  • Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures to ensure system reliability.
  • Plan and execute chaos and incident game day exercises to validate system resilience and team preparedness.
  • Develop and maintain backup and restore tooling and processes for critical systems and data.
  • Mentor junior engineers and guide them on technical best practices and development standards.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field of study.
  • 5+ years of 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 to support 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 experience in Python, Java, Bash, and Go.
  • Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with chaos engineering tools and frameworks (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, Litmus).

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