PayPal
Sr Staff Backend Engineer - Venmo Product
$178K–$292K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- Minimum: 8+ years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferred qualifications also state 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Additional qualifications mention a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and owns the design, security, reliability, and performance of Venmo’s Consumer Financial Services backend platform, including authentication, verification, and fraud-risk systems.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-team architecture, technical standards, and initiatives for the CFS platform; own complex problems from design through production.
- Partner with Product, Legal, Compliance, Security, and PayPal platform teams to build secure systems that meet business and regulatory needs.
- Mentor engineers, identify system risks, and own service performance and availability, including on-call and incident support.
What they ask for
- Minimum qualification: 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial backend platform, authentication, or security-critical systems work at scale.
- Deep expertise in Python and API management, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and FIDO2/WebAuthn.
- Experience leading large-scale distributed systems and technical strategy across multiple teams or organizations.
Nice to have
- Experience with public cloud, preferably AWS, and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Experience designing systems subject to regulatory requirements such as KYC, AML, GDPR, or PCI.
Pay
San Jose, California: $196,500.00 - $291,500.00 USD annually (base pay); Austin, Texas: $178,500.00 - $265,100.00 USD annually (base pay)
Tools
Python, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO2/WebAuthn, Java, Go, AWS
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