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# Sr Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** PayPal
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,500.0 - $291,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Stores, Relational Databases, Fault Tolerance, Hazelcast, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Amazon ElastiCache, Caching, Backend, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/76098962-sr-staff-software-engineer

## About the Role

* 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience., * Master's in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
 * 10+ years' experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
 * Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
 * Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
 * Expert with distributed services and backend systems
 * Expertise with building services on public cloud - preferably AWS
 * Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
 * Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
 * Past experience with Feed and Search

## Description

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 payment backend services 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 best. We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability and scalability., * Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries

 * Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
 * Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
 * Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
 * Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
 * Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
 * Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means - modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
 * Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals, The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is