Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure and Devops

Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps leading major initiatives, coordinating engineers, defining design/standards, and driving reliability and scalability of PayPal/Venmo's AWS cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include end-to-end project leadership, mentoring engineers, improving infrastructure and development workflows, implementing automation, security and compliance best practices, and collaborating with product teams. Desired skills include cloud engineering (AWS), containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), scripting (Python, Bash, Go), IaC tooling (Terraform, CDK), CI/CD pipelines, and experience operating distributed systems at scale. Qualifications call for 7+ years in software development, 5+ years in operating distributed apps, 2+ years of technical leadership, and a Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related field. The role emphasizes independent decision-making, architectural leadership, and mentoring within a high-velocity, hybrid-work environment. The position offers location-based pay ranges and a balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.