Staff Cloud Engineer & Tech Lead

Venmo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity

Performance bonus

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Venmo is seeking a Staff Engineer in Cloud/DevOps to lead major initiatives end-to-end and mentor engineers across distributed systems. The role emphasizes designing robust, scalable cloud infrastructure and stewarding best practices in automation and security across Venmo's AWS-based stack.

You will collaborate with product and platform teams to define standards, drive reliability, and deliver high-quality services. A hybrid work model with strong technical leadership is offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development or a related field.
• 5+ years operating distributed applications in Cloud/SRE contexts.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives end-to-end, coordinating multiple teams.
• Define design, stakeholders, risks, and delivery plans for projects.
• Coach and mentor engineers on design principles and best practices.
• Develop and improve tools and automation for infra and deployment.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

SRE

AWS

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's and/or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

EKS

Docker

GitHub Enterprise

CDK

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

Venmo is seeking a Staff Engineer in Cloud/DevOps to lead major initiatives end-to-end and mentor engineers across distributed systems. The role emphasizes designing robust, scalable cloud infrastructure and stewarding best practices in automation and security across Venmo's AWS-based stack.

You will collaborate with product and platform teams to define standards, drive reliability, and deliver high-quality services. A hybrid work model with strong technical leadership is offered.