Senior Staff Software Engineer

PayPal

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose, CAAustin, TX
Salary: $196,500–$291,500 / yr
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Apr 13, 2027
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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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.

PayPal currently has 96 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Sr Staff Software Engineer The Sr Staff Software Engineer joins the Venmo engineering team to scale payment backend services and build new features. This role involves making technical decisions across organizational boundaries, establishing engineering conventions, and managing multi-team initiatives. The engineer will partner with product management to solve business problems, mentor staff, and communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences. Key responsibilities include building fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services and managing infrastructure as code. Required technical skills include Python, RDBMS, NoSQL data stores, and caching solutions like Redis, ElastiCache, or Hazelcast. Candidates should also possess expertise in messaging protocols such as SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar, and experience with AWS public cloud services. The role specifically addresses the technical challenges of maintaining high-performance, reliable payment systems.

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Skills

Python AWS Terraform RDBMS NoSQL Redis ElastiCache Hazelcast SQS Kafka RabbitMQ Pulsar Backend Systems Infrastructure as Code Caching

What you'll do

Make technical decisions that affect multiple teams and cross organizational boundaries.
Establish technical conventions and processes to be followed by other employees.
Manage multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously while prioritizing high-impact issues.
Communicate complex technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences.
Mentor engineering staff and share knowledge through 1:1s, working sessions, and documentation.
Partner with product management to ideate solutions for business problems and goals.
Apply up-to-date industry capabilities and practices to achieve optimal technical results.

What we're looking for

8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Master's in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience (preferred).
10+ years’ experience with Python or an equivalent high-level programming language (preferred).
Advanced skills with RDBMS, NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols (preferred).
Ability to lead projects, mentor engineering staff, and manage relationships with Product and Engineering Operations (preferred).
Expert with distributed services, backend systems, and building services on public cloud, preferably AWS (preferred).
Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform (preferred).
Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems (preferred).

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