PayPal
Staff Software Engineer
$160K–$262K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for Venmo Payments, designing and operating secure, reliable, scalable backend services while coordinating engineers and improving technical standards and processes.
What you'll do
- Lead engineering projects and provide technical direction, mentoring, and recommendations on system designs and engineering strategy.
- Design, implement, and maintain software services, owning their quality, performance, availability, and operational support.
- Coordinate engineers, improve team processes and engineering standards, and assess implementation options and trade-offs.
What they ask for
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Expertise in distributed services and backend systems.
- Experience with fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services and systems.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching, and messaging or queuing systems.
Nice to have
- Experience building public-cloud services, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Pay
San Jose, California: ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually) USD base salary; Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
RDBMS, NoSQL, Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast, SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ
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