1 day ago
Base Salary
$179k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Make technical decisions affecting multiple teams and organizational boundaries.
- Set technical direction for Venmo’s CFS platform, including authentication, authorization, verification, and fraud-risk systems.
- Design and ship large-scale distributed backend systems from initial design through production.
- Lead architectural reviews and define engineering standards for scalability, reliability, security, and design quality.
- Partner with platform, security, product, legal, compliance, and other organizations on shared standards and regulatory requirements.
- Mentor senior engineers through design documents, code reviews, technical discussions, and example-setting.
- Own service performance and availability, identify risks proactively, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience is preferred, including significant work on backend platforms, authentication, or security-critical systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in Python and API management, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and FIDO2/WebAuthn.
- Experience defining and shipping large-scale distributed systems and leading technical strategy across multiple teams or organizations.
- Hands-on experience with backend systems at scale, public cloud such as AWS, and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Security engineering fundamentals involving threat models, data handling, and attack surfaces.
- Experience designing systems that meet regulatory requirements such as KYC, AML, GDPR, or PCI.
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong communication skills, including technical documentation and communicating complex tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at the office or home workspace.
- Comprehensive choice-based wellbeing programs, paid time off, healthcare coverage, financial-security resources, and mental-health support.
- Potential annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation in addition to base pay.
- No travel is required; the listed locations are San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas.
About PayPal
PayPal builds digital payments platforms for consumers and merchants, including PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom, supporting online, in‑app, and in‑person checkout and peer‑to‑peer transfers. It earns primarily from transaction and merchant processing fees, plus value‑added services such as risk management and branded credit. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, PayPal operates in roughly 200 markets and is a public company traded on NASDAQ.