PayPal
Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure and Devops
$152K–$262K
San Jose, California, United States of America +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 7+ years’ experience in software development or a related field; 5+ years operating distributed cloud network, routing, or edge infrastructure; 2+ years technical leadership experience. General qualifications also state 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's and/or master's in computer science or related field of study; general qualifications state a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads the design, implementation, and operation of Venmo’s cloud networking, routing, CDN, ingress, and edge security infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead major networking, routing, CDN, and infrastructure security initiatives from design through delivery.
- Architect and improve CDN, WAF, ingress, reverse proxy, and load-balancing services; troubleshoot incidents and strengthen reliability and security.
- Coordinate and mentor engineers, guide cross-team networking practices, and improve infrastructure automation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years’ experience operating distributed cloud network, routing, or edge infrastructure 24x7x365.
- 2+ years technical leadership experience.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud networking and edge infrastructure, CDN and WAF, ingress controllers, and reverse proxies/load balancing.
- Expertise in networking fundamentals and hands-on programming/scripting with Python, Go, or Bash; experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- AWS is preferred for cloud networking experience.
- Bachelor's and/or master's in computer science or a related field of study.
Pay
San Jose, California: ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually) USD base salary; Chicago, Illinois: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually) USD base salary; Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually) USD base salary; Scottsdale, Arizona: ($152,500.00 - $226,600.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
AWS, AWS CloudFront, Envoy, Contour, NGINX, EKS, Docker, Terraform
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