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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About PayPal
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
78 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$160,500–$238,700
across 72 roles with salary data.
JOB TITLE: Staff Engineer - Kafka Specialist
The Staff Engineer - Kafka Specialist joins the Venmo Data Infrastructure team to serve as the technical authority for the real-time data and message streaming platform. In this senior technical leadership role, you will own the technical roadmap, architecture, and operational excellence for Kafka at scale. You will design cluster architectures, partitioning strategies, and multi-region replication while leading root-cause analysis for complex performance incidents. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, defining schema governance, and managing lifecycle tasks like capacity planning and disaster recovery. You must possess deep expertise in Apache Kafka internals, including KRaft and consumer group rebalancing. Required skills include Python, Java, Terraform, and AWS services such as S3, EKS, and Glue. You will solve critical streaming infrastructure problems to support Venmo product, analytics, and downstream data movement.
What does a Engineer earn in California?
Median $196471 from 104 postings across 28 companies.
Remote (Seattle, WA)147 days ago
$115,000–$230,000
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