Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure and Devops

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXChicago, ILScottsdale, AZSan Jose, CA
Salary
$130,500–$193,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
55 days ago
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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 to ensure the resilience and recoverability of Venmo’s critical systems. You will deliver complete solutions across the entire Software Development Lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, delivery, and operations. Key responsibilities involve building and operating infrastructure to withstand failure scenarios, designing disaster recovery automation, and executing chaos engineering experiments and incident game days. You will mentor junior engineers and manage project-level issues with high independence. The technical stack includes AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Bash, Python, and Go. This role solves the business problem of maintaining high availability for distributed systems by proactively identifying system weaknesses and managing backup and restore processes for global-scale services.

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What you'll do

  • Deliver complete software solutions across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Design, build, and operate infrastructure to ensure Venmo's systems withstand and recover from failures.
  • Implement and operate chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify and remediate system weaknesses.
  • Build and maintain disaster recovery automation, runbooks, and backup/restore tooling for critical systems.
  • Plan and execute chaos and incident game day exercises to validate system resilience.
  • Define and track resilience metrics, SLOs, and recovery time objectives for owned systems.
  • Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures to improve production operations.
  • Mentor junior engineers and guide them on technical best practices and internal conventions.

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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