Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer — AWS, Automation & Scale

Devopsroles; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Healthcare benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

PayPal's Venmo team in Austin seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to own and scale our cloud infrastructure. You will shape deployment pipelines, mentor engineers, and drive reliability across production and development environments.

You will work with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling to deliver resilient services in a highly distributed system with a strong focus on security and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS or related field.
• 5+ years software development or related field.
• 3+ years operating distributed apps 24x7x365 as part of a Cloud/DevOps/SRE team.

Responsibilities

• Act as hands-on contributor while leading by example.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Triage incidents, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with product teams to improve reliability and scale.

Skills

Go

Python

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

SRE

Education

Bachelor's in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Job description

PayPal's Venmo team in Austin seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to own and scale our cloud infrastructure. You will shape deployment pipelines, mentor engineers, and drive reliability across production and development environments.

You will work with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling to deliver resilient services in a highly distributed system with a strong focus on security and performance.