Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes Automation

Venmo; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Balanced hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Venmo is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to our AI-powered tooling and maintain Venmo’s AWS cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with a fast-moving DevOps team to improve reliability, velocity, and automation across our services.

You will work on SDLC tasks, support on-call rotations, and help build self-service pipelines and testing frameworks in a balanced hybrid model. A Bachelor’s in CS and 1+ years’ experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of software development or a related field.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) or container technologies.
• Programming and scripting experience in Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
• Exposure to containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong communication skills and eagerness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to infrastructure features and automation under guidance of senior engineers.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and escalate when needed.
• Write automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code to improve efficiency.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, self-service tooling, and microservices scaffolding.
• Learn and apply best practices in cloud engineering, DevOps, and SRE.

Skills

Python

Go

Bash

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Containers

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Enterprise

Terraform

DataDog

Job description

Venmo is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to our AI-powered tooling and maintain Venmo’s AWS cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with a fast-moving DevOps team to improve reliability, velocity, and automation across our services.

You will work on SDLC tasks, support on-call rotations, and help build self-service pipelines and testing frameworks in a balanced hybrid model. A Bachelor’s in CS and 1+ years’ experience are required.