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Sr Staff Software Engineer at PayPal

Compensation · Listed in posting

$196,500 – $291,500/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, California · Austin, Texas
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

PayPal is hiring a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for Venmo's identity infrastructure, a high-stakes technical domain covering authentication, authorization, identity verification, and fraud risk systems. The role owns complex cross-cutting problems from design through production, sets technical direction and engineering standards, partners with product, legal, compliance, and security teams, mentors senior engineers, and supports service performance and availability. The position requires 8+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination, with preferred qualifications including 12+ years of software engineering experience, identity and access management expertise, distributed systems experience, cloud and backend systems knowledge, and Terraform experience. The role offers hybrid work and base pay of $196,500–$291,500 annually in San Jose, California, or $178,500–$265,100 annually in Austin, Texas.

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