Senior Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

PayPal; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal’s Venmo division seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to own the reliability of our AWS-based services, evolving CI/CD, incident response, and scalable infrastructure.

You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and influence cloud engineering, SRE, and secure deployment within our hybrid work model in Scottsdale, AZ. You’ll collaborate with product teams to improve performance and resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of software development or related experience.
• 3+ years operating distributed applications 24x7 in Cloud/DevOps/SRE teams.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing and supporting infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS from AWS.
• Hands-on programming/scripting (Python, Java, Bash, Go).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on contributor while leading by example.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide team practices.
• Maintain independence in decision making while ensuring results.
• Drive scalability and reliability of PayPal’s AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Define designs, identify stakeholders, manage risks, and coordinate work.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and document fixes.
• Improve production operations and develop automation tooling.
• Develop and improve tools to manage infrastructure as code.
• Enhance overall infrastructure reliability and stability.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Bash

Terraform

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or related field

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

DataDog

Job description

PayPal’s Venmo division seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to own the reliability of our AWS-based services, evolving CI/CD, incident response, and scalable infrastructure.

You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and influence cloud engineering, SRE, and secure deployment within our hybrid work model in Scottsdale, AZ. You’ll collaborate with product teams to improve performance and resilience.