Staff Cloud Networking & Edge Infrastructure Engineer

PayPal; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

PayPal's Venmo team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead cloud networking efforts, defining routing, CDN, and edge security across global services. You will architect scalable ingress and security controls, mentor engineers, and drive IaC for reliable platforms.

You will collaborate with SRE, security, and product teams to ensure fast, secure, and cost-effective networking at scale in a hybrid PayPal environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
• 5+ years operating distributed cloud network, routing, or edge infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives end-to-end across cloud networking, routing, CDN, and infra security.
• Architect and evolve CDN and edge delivery strategy (AWS CloudFront).
• Set direction for WAF and edge security controls, protecting Venmo's services from threats.
• Own the architecture of Envoy/Contour-based ingress and nginx-based reverse proxy and load-balancing services.
• Coach and mentor engineers across the Cloud Platform & Infrastructure org.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation to manage networking and routing configuration.
• Troubleshoot complex network incidents and identify root causes.

Skills

Cloud networking

CDN edge delivery

WAF/edge security

Envoy/Contour

NGINX proxy

Docker/Kubernetes

Python/Go/Bash

Networking fundamentals

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

AWS CloudFront

CDK

Terraform

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Envoy

Contour

NGINX

EKS

Job description

PayPal's Venmo team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead cloud networking efforts, defining routing, CDN, and edge security across global services. You will architect scalable ingress and security controls, mentor engineers, and drive IaC for reliable platforms.

You will collaborate with SRE, security, and product teams to ensure fast, secure, and cost-effective networking at scale in a hybrid PayPal environment.