Sr. Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure and Devops at PayPal
San Jose, CA
$143,500–$212,850from the description
Jun 30, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior cloud/DevOps engineering role on Venmo's Business Continuity team, focused on building and operating the systems that keep Venmo's AWS infrastructure resilient and recoverable. Day-to-day work spans disaster recovery automation, chaos engineering experiments, game day exercises, and backup and restore tooling, using a stack that includes AWS, EKS, Terraform, Python, Go, and Datadog. The role suits an experienced distributed-systems engineer comfortable owning projects end-to-end and mentoring others.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 280 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 210–370
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists multiple work locations (San Jose CA, Austin TX, Scottsdale AZ) with different pay ranges; the San Jose range ($143,500–$212,850/yr) is reported as the primary location figure.
The role is titled 'Cloud/DevOps Engineer – Business Continuity' and sits at the intersection of cloud engineering, SRE, and reliability. It emphasizes building and shipping automation, tooling, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Python, Go, GitHub Actions), which points to Software Developers (15-1252) as the primary SOC. However, a meaningful portion of the work is operating distributed systems 24x7 and managing cloud infrastructure, making 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
The top-level 'Expected Qualifications' state '8+ years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience,' but the more detailed 'What We're Looking For' section gates on '5+ years in software development or a related field' — the lower, more specific figure (5) is used as the overall years minimum.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's in computer science or related field' under 'What We're Looking For,' but the top-level qualifications explicitly accept 'any equivalent combination of education and experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, and EKS appear in the 'Our technical stack' narrative section rather than under a formal requirements heading, so they are marked as preferred.
AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, and Litmus are listed as examples under the requirements section with 'e.g.' — one skill is emitted with the others as alternatives per the interchangeable-options rule.
The role follows a hybrid model (3 days in office, 2 days flexible), so remote is set to false.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): chaos engineering, AWS Fault Injection Simulator.
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