Senior Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Venmo, LLC is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps team in Austin, TX. You will own the resilience of Venmo’s AWS cloud infrastructure, build tools for disaster recovery, and run chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify weaknesses.

As a senior contributor, you’ll mentor engineers, lead incident response exercises, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, reliable services with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in software development or related field.
• 3+ years’ experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365.

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on contributor while leading by example.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve development practices.
• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery tooling.
• Develop and maintain chaos engineering experiments and runbooks.
• Plan and execute game day exercises to validate resilience.

Skills

Cloud engineering

SRE practices

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

Venmo, LLC is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps team in Austin, TX. You will own the resilience of Venmo’s AWS cloud infrastructure, build tools for disaster recovery, and run chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify weaknesses.

As a senior contributor, you’ll mentor engineers, lead incident response exercises, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, reliable services with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.