Staff Engineer, Cloud & Platform Leadership

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

Job summary

Venmo, a PayPal subsidiary, is seeking a Staff Engineer for Cloud/DevOps to lead major initiatives, design scalable cloud infrastructure, and mentor engineers. You will work within a hybrid PayPal/Venmo environment, shaping the future of Venmo cloud operations while ensuring reliability for millions of users.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architecture direction, and collaboration with product teams across AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
• 2+ years technical leadership experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience in designing, implementing and supporting distributed cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead major initiatives end-to-end, coordinating internal teams and managing project scope and timelines.
• Define design and architecture decisions, set standards, and mentor engineers and product owners.
• Triage incidents, diagnose root causes, document fixes, and improve operational readiness.
• Build and improve tooling and automation to enhance reliability and scalability.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

EKS

Docker

GitHub Enterprise

CDK

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

Venmo, a PayPal subsidiary, is seeking a Staff Engineer for Cloud/DevOps to lead major initiatives, design scalable cloud infrastructure, and mentor engineers. You will work within a hybrid PayPal/Venmo environment, shaping the future of Venmo cloud operations while ensuring reliability for millions of users.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architecture direction, and collaboration with product teams across AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.