Principal Engineer, Cloud Data Infrastructure
Core
Technical authority for Venmo's data platform infrastructure and performance engineering, setting technology vision and providing deep technical leadership for mission-critical databases, data pipelines, and real-time payment processing systems.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Cloud Data Infrastructure
Builds
Mission-critical databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, caching infrastructure, and performance engineering for Venmo's real-time payment processing.
Domain
Financial technology / Payments processing / Real-time data infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Architecture design, technical strategy, resilience engineering, failure injection testing, business continuity planning, data pipeline frameworks, real-time analytics, mentoring senior engineers, AI/ML workflow integration, vector databases, feature stores, LLM serving infrastructure.
Preferred skills
Financial technology background, transaction processing systems experience, resilience engineering, modern data pipeline frameworks, mentoring senior engineers, AI/ML integration.
Technologies
Vector databases, feature stores, LLM serving infrastructure, modern data pipeline frameworks, messaging systems, caching infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Set the technology roadmap for a domain, increase results and effectiveness of software engineers, provide advice and counsel to senior executives, handle ambiguous situations, identify themes and trends for improvement, determine build vs buy decisions, mentor others to propagate technical influence.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with broad organizational influence