Staff Software Engineer - Foundations, Infrastructure (Austin, Chicago, Phoenix)
About Us
Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds!
But we’re only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we haven’t thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that’s going to take a lot of figuring out. Let’s figure it out together!
Engineering at Venmo
At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another, and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.
Foundations Engineering
As a Foundations Staff Software Engineer at Venmo, you will lead the technical progression of the devOps team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and operating complex solutions, standardizing tool sets used by every engineer, and being the bastion of our languages, CICD tooling, and developer infrastructure. We own framework and tools for creating delivery and release pipelines, deployment tooling, both for development, staging and production systems, CICD infrastructure in general. As part of the team you will be expected to be a role model on project leading, coding standards, API design, platforms and other developer infrastructure best practices for the Venmo Engineering teams.
What You’ll Do
- Leading the design and improvements to our developer CI/CD infrastructure
- Standardizing tool sets to streamline development and deployment of backend systems
- Scaling our distributed services architecture to support growth while maintaining performance and reliability
- Taking ownership of the tools we develop and operate, being part of on-call and interrupts rotations.
- Collaborating with other engineers in software design and development
- Helping triage issues, track software defects, and ensure timely resolution
- Strong advocacy for technical standards and quality across PayPal, Inc.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years experience in software development and operations. 2+ years of technical leadership experience
- Experience working on backend systems at scale, using technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, docker-compose, gRPC, we write code in Golang and Py. GitHub Actions and AWS deployment suite (CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, etc) are a big plus.
- Experience in operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting software running in the cloud.
- Experience building and deploying complex but well-architected, maintainable, and testable presentation infrastructure for our backend systems
- Strong object-oriented programming skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.