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Sr. Software Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps
$124K–$213K
San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years' experience in software development or a related field; 3+ years operating distributed applications 24x7x365 in a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team. Minimum qualification also states 5+ 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 qualification allows any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Designs and builds AI-powered tools and cloud infrastructure solutions to improve the productivity, reliability, and operations of Venmo’s Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps teams.
What you'll do
- Lead and deliver infrastructure projects, coordinating technical work and improving engineering standards and operations.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, improve infrastructure automation, and support the scalability and reliability of AWS services.
- Build and integrate LLM-powered tools, AI automation, and internal platforms into developer tools, CI/CD, and observability workflows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
- 3+ years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365 in a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team.
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure, programming or scripting, and container experience; hands-on experience building applications with LLMs or generative AI frameworks.
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation techniques.
Nice to have
- AWS experience; experience with ML model serving, vector databases, or embedding pipelines.
Pay
San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually) USD base salary; Austin, Texas: ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually) USD base salary; Scottsdale, Arizona: ($123,500.00 - $183,700.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Python
AI focus
Builds LLM-powered runbook and incident tools, AI-assisted infrastructure automation, and internal AI platforms; integrates AI into developer tooling and CI/CD, evaluates AI tools, and establishes responsible-use, safety, evaluation, and observability practices.
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