# Senior Software Engineer

PayPal is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform team. The role focuses on building and improving cloud and container platforms, supporting developers and operations teams, and developing automation, monitoring, and alerting for reliable infrastructure. Responsibilities Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives Proactively improves existing structures & processes Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations You will form part of a global team that will drive best practice in the PaaS/CaaS arena. Joining next generation Container platform team, opportunity to

- **Id**: 4013615
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/venmo-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T10:20:39Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:20:39Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4245
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 1754590
- **Name**: Venmo
- **Domain**: venmo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/venmo-com>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 144000
- **Max**: 213000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 213000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **etcd** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **ZooKeeper** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T11:26:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T13:18:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 213000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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