PayPal
Sr. Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure and Devops
$124K–$213K
Austin, Texas, United States of America +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
San Jose, California, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in software development or a related field, and 3+ years operating distributed applications 24x7x365; the posting also lists a minimum qualification of 3+ years’ relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field of study; minimum qualifications allow any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship through PayPal is not available for this position now or any time in the future.
About the job
Build and operate Venmo’s cloud infrastructure and business continuity systems to improve resilience, disaster recovery, and recovery from failures.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and operate chaos engineering experiments, incident game days, and disaster recovery automation.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation, backup and restore tooling, runbooks, and resilience metrics.
- Troubleshoot incidents, improve production operations, and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s in computer science or a related field of study.
- 5+ years’ experience in software development or a related field.
- 3+ years’ experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 as part of a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, programming or scripting, containers and orchestration, disaster recovery, and backup and restore solutions.
Nice to have
- AWS experience is preferred.
- Experience with chaos engineering tools and frameworks such as AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, or Litmus.
Pay
Austin, Texas: $130,500.00 - $193,600.00 USD annually (base pay); Chicago, Illinois: $130,500.00 - $193,600.00 USD annually (base pay); San Jose, California: $143,500.00 - $212,850.00 USD annually (base pay); Scottsdale, Arizona: $123,500.00 - $183,700.00 USD annually (base pay)
Tools
AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Python
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