Staff Cloud Engineer & Technical Leader

PayPal; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

PayPal’s Venmo team in Scottsdale, AZ seeks a Staff Engineer to drive cloud engineering initiatives and mentor engineers. You will lead architecture decisions, promote best practices, and partner with management to deliver scalable, secure services.

Expect hands-on leadership in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, shaping Venmo's cloud platform while aligning with business goals. This role blends independence with collaboration in a balanced hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development or related field.
• 5+ years operating distributed applications in Cloud Engineering, DevOps or SRE.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives end-to-end across domains.
• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in architecture and delivery.
• Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to align on technical direction.

Skills

AWS

EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CDK

Go

Python

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Datadog

CI/CD tooling

Job description

PayPal’s Venmo team in Scottsdale, AZ seeks a Staff Engineer to drive cloud engineering initiatives and mentor engineers. You will lead architecture decisions, promote best practices, and partner with management to deliver scalable, secure services.

Expect hands-on leadership in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, shaping Venmo's cloud platform while aligning with business goals. This role blends independence with collaboration in a balanced hybrid work model.