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Base Salary
$161k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and architecture for Venmo’s Kafka streaming platform.
- Set technical direction for Kafka cluster architecture, topic design, partitioning, and multi-tenant governance.
- Lead Kafka lifecycle management, including upgrades, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and multi-region replication.
- Analyze and resolve complex Kafka performance, reliability, and data-loss incidents.
- Define best practices for producer and consumer design, schema governance, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.
- Establish engineering standards, runbooks, and operational rigor for streaming infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across Kafka and adjacent data infrastructure.
- Partner with executive, product, engineering, and analytics stakeholders on streaming architecture decisions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent qualifications.
- Deep hands-on experience operating and scaling Apache Kafka in high-throughput, highly available production environments.
- Experience with Kafka partitions, replication, ISR, controller quorum/KRaft, and consumer group rebalancing.
- Experience architecting multi-region Kafka topologies, disaster recovery, and low- or zero-downtime upgrades.
- Experience securing Kafka with IAM-based authentication and authorization, including fine-grained producer and consumer policies.
- Experience with Schema Registry, schema governance, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or a similar cloud provider, infrastructure as code, and Python or Java programming and scripting.
- Experience with AWS S3, AWS DMS, AWS EKS, Apache Spark, and AWS Glue in streaming or big data environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence engineering standards, communicate complex trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
- AWS Solutions Architect or Confluent Kafka certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model typically requiring 3 days in the office and 2 days in the office or home workspace.
- Healthcare coverage, paid time off, mental health resources, financial security programs, and other choice-based wellbeing benefits.
- Additional compensation may include performance bonuses, equity, or other incentives.
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.