PayPal
Sr Staff Software Engineer
$178K–$292K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- Minimum: 8+ years relevant experience; preferred: 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferred: Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds reliable, secure identity infrastructure for Venmo, including authentication, authorization, identity verification, and fraud-risk systems.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-team architecture, standards, and technical initiatives for the identity platform from design through production.
- Partner across PayPal and with Product, Legal, Compliance, and Security to deliver shared identity capabilities and address regulatory and risk requirements.
- Own service performance, availability, and incident support; mentor senior engineers and identify risks proactively.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Technical leadership across multiple teams, including making architectural decisions and communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences.
- Experience owning complex systems and collaborating with product management.
Nice to have
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in identity, authentication, or security-critical systems at scale.
- Expertise in identity protocols and distributed backend systems; experience with AWS, Terraform, and regulatory requirements such as KYC, AML, GDPR, or similar.
Pay
USD 196,500.00 - USD 291,500.00 annually (base pay); USD 178,500.00 - USD 265,100.00 annually (base pay)
Tools
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO2/WebAuthn, Python, Java, Go, AWS
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