PayPal
Sr Staff Software Engineer
$178K–$292K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience; 10+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience; preferred: Master's in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads cross-team engineering initiatives and technical decisions while scaling Venmo payment backend services and developing features focused on functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Make technical decisions across teams, establish engineering conventions, and prioritize multiple initiatives.
- Partner with product management to develop solutions; communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences.
- Mentor engineers and improve technical practices through guidance, collaboration, and documentation.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years’ experience with Python or an equivalent high-level programming language.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching, and messaging or queuing systems.
- Expertise in distributed backend services, public cloud services, and fault-tolerant, scalable systems.
Nice to have
- Master's in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, and Feed and Search.
Pay
USD 196,500.00 - 291,500.00 Annually (base salary); USD 178,500.00 - 265,100.00 Annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, RDBMS, NoSQL, Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast, SQS, Kafka
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