Sr. Software Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

PayPal
Scottsdale, AZ, United States
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Continuous Integration DevOps Programming Tools Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Python (Programming Language)
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Machine Learning Systems Development Life Cycle Application Enhancement Tool Chatbots Delivery Pipeline Large Language Models Prompt Engineering Build Management Heroku AI Platforms Kubernetes Api Design Docker Golang

Job description

Experteer Overview In this role you will contribute to Venmo’s Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps by designing and building AI-powered tooling. You will lead and mentor peers, influence engineering standards, and advance an AI-enabled tooling initiative that boosts productivity, reliability, and velocity. You operate with autonomy across the SDLC to deliver scalable, secure solutions. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into development workflows, observability, and incident response. This is a chance to shape how AI helps engineering at scale in a globally connected payments platform. Compensation / Benefits * Act as project/system leader coordinating engineers on the project * Define technical tasks for teammates * Drive customer, operational, program, or service objectives * Proactively improve existing structures and processes * Balance priorities to identify optimal solutions * Condense repetitive patterns into generalized solutions * Collaborate with management to set engineering standards * Represent PayPal to partners, customers, or industry groups * Troubleshoot incidents and implement preventive measures * Lead by example to improve production operations * Develop and improve automation for infrastructure and configuration as code * Enhance reliability and stability of infrastructure and operations * Design and build AI-powered tools for runbook generation, incident triage, configuration review, and root cause analysis * Develop AI-assisted automation pipelines for provisioning, scaling, and deployment * Integrate AI into developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability platforms * Build internal AI platforms and APIs for other teams to leverage LLM/ML capabilities * Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging AI tools and models * Establish responsible AI practices including safety and observability of outputs Tasks * 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) * 3+ years operating distributed applications 24x7x365 in Cloud Engineering/DevOps/SRE * Extensive AWS infrastructure design and support experience * Hands-on experience with IaaS/PaaS solutions from AWS or similar * Proficiency in Python, Java, Bash, Go * Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) * Strong communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences * Hands-on experience building with LLMs/generative AI (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API, Bedrock or similar) * Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation * Experience integrating AI/ML into developer tools, CLIs, chatbots, or internal platforms * Familiarity with AI observability, safety, and responsible AI in production * Nice-to-have: ML model serving, vector databases, embedding pipelines Key requirements * balanced hybrid work model * generous paid time off * healthcare coverage for you and family * equity and/or incentive compensation * annual performance bonus * professional development funds

Requirements

management to set engineering standards * Represent PayPal to partners, customers, or industry groups * Troubleshoot incidents and implement preventive measures * Lead by example to improve production operations * Develop and improve automation for infrastructure and configuration as code * Enhance reliability and stability of infrastructure and operations * Design and build AI-powered tools for runbook generation, incident triage, configuration review, and root cause analysis * Develop AI-assisted automation pipelines for provisioning, scaling, and deployment * Integrate AI into developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability platforms * Build internal AI platforms and APIs for other teams to leverage LLM/ML capabilities * Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging AI tools and models * Establish responsible AI practices including safety and observability of outputs Tasks * 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) * 3+ years operating distributed applications 24x7x365 in Cloud Engineering/DevOps/SRE * Extensive AWS infrastructure design and support experience * Hands-on experience with IaaS/PaaS solutions from AWS or similar * Proficiency in Python, Java, Bash, Go * Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) * Strong communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences * Hands-on experience building with LLMs/generative AI (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API, Bedrock or similar) * Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation * Experience integrating AI/ML into developer tools, CLIs, chatbots, or internal platforms * Familiarity with AI observability, safety, and responsible AI in production * Nice-to-have: ML model serving, vector databases, embedding pipelines Key requirements * balanced hybrid work model * generous paid time off * healthcare coverage for you and family * equity and/or incentive compensation * annual performance bonus * professional aaaaaaaaa

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