Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer (Chaos & DR)

Socket.dev; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Venmo is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Business Continuity team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure that protects critical systems. You will drive chaos engineering, incident game days, and disaster recovery automation across AWS-based environments, guiding junior engineers, and delivering resilient, scalable solutions.

Expect independence with accountability, strong collaboration across teams, and a focus on reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of software development or related field (as per job requirements).
• 3+ years operating distributed applications in a Cloud/DevOps/SRE context.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the SDLC.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide teams on best practices.
• Lead chaos engineering and disaster recovery initiatives to ensure system resilience.
• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and related tooling.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Explain technical issues to non-tech

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Enterprise

Bash

Python

Go

Java

Job description

Venmo is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Business Continuity team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure that protects critical systems. You will drive chaos engineering, incident game days, and disaster recovery automation across AWS-based environments, guiding junior engineers, and delivering resilient, scalable solutions.

Expect independence with accountability, strong collaboration across teams, and a focus on reliability.