Description
PayPal is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering to lead engineering projects and systems, coordinate engineers, determine technical tasks, make technical decisions, improve processes, and represent the company to external partners. The role owns the design, implementation, performance, availability, and operational excellence of scalable payment services, including distributed systems, databases, caching, messaging, cloud infrastructure, and Terraform. It requires at least five years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination, with preferred expertise in AWS or GCP, fault-tolerant distributed systems, and infrastructure as code. The role offers a balanced hybrid model and pays $176,500–$262,350 annually in San Jose, California, or $160,500–$238,700 annually in Austin, Texas.
