Staff Cloud Networking & Infrastructure Lead

PayPal, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Generous paid time off

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Cloud Platform & Infrastructure initiatives for Venmo in the San Jose area. You will drive cloud networking, routing, CDN and edge security with hands-on execution and strategic leadership across teams.

You will architect and evolve our CDN/edge delivery (AWS CloudFront), manage WAF and security controls, and own the ingress architecture using Envoy/Contour and nginx proxies. Mentoring and high-availability operations are core expectations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development or a related field.
• Experience operating distributed cloud network/edge infrastructure 24x7x365.
• Deep hands-on experience designing cloud networking and edge infrastructure (AWS preferred).

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).
• Own Envoy- and Contour-based ingress and nginx-based reverse proxy and load-balancing services.
• Coach and mentor engineers across the org on networking design principles and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex network incidents and implement preventive measures.

Skills

Project leadership

Cloud networking

Mentoring engineers

SRE collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

CloudFront

Envoy

NGINX

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Python

Job description

PayPal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Cloud Platform & Infrastructure initiatives for Venmo in the San Jose area. You will drive cloud networking, routing, CDN and edge security with hands-on execution and strategic leadership across teams.

You will architect and evolve our CDN/edge delivery (AWS CloudFront), manage WAF and security controls, and own the ingress architecture using Envoy/Contour and nginx proxies. Mentoring and high-availability operations are core expectations.