Staff Software Engineer

PayPal

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type: Hybrid
Location: Austin, Texas · San Jose, California
Salary: $160,500–$235,826 / yr
Posted: 90 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $198k

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This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $198k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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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 84 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $160,500–$235,826 across 84 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Venmo Payments Engineering team in San Jose, California, you will serve as a senior engineer and subject matter expert, leading engineering efforts and refining processes for a fast-growing organization. Your day-to-day responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of software components, contributing to the technical roadmap, and providing guidance to senior leaders. You will design and implement new and refactored services securely and at scale, ensuring high quality and operational excellence while participating in on-call rotations. The role requires expertise in Python or a similar language, advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging protocols, as well as experience with public cloud platforms like AWS or GCP. Additionally, you must have the ability to mentor team members and manage relationships across various departments within PayPal's expansive payments ecosystem.

Skills

Python AWS GCP Azure Terraform RDBMS NoSQL Redis ElastiCache Hazelcast SQS Kafka RabbitMQ Pulsar Distributed Systems CI/CD

What you'll do

Lead engineering efforts and refine team processes to ensure technical excellence.
Design and implement secure, reliable software services on the platform at scale.
Provide technical leadership for a small team with minimal guidance from senior members.
Contribute to the technical roadmap by assessing implementation alternatives and trade-offs.
Own the performance and availability of services, including participation in on-call rotations.

What we're looking for

8+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
Advanced skills in RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols
Expertise in building distributed services and backend systems on public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Ability to lead projects and mentor engineering staff at all levels
Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
Strong technical leadership for a small team with minimal guidance from senior members

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