Sr. Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure and Devops
Core
Design, build, and operate infrastructure, tooling, and processes to ensure Venmo's critical systems can withstand and rapidly recover from any failure scenario, including disaster recovery automation and chaos engineering.
Role type
Senior IC Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer (Business Continuity)
Builds
Disaster recovery automation, chaos engineering experiments, backup and restore systems, and infrastructure tooling for Venmo
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Cloud infrastructure design, chaos engineering, disaster recovery automation, incident management, infrastructure as code, system reliability engineering, technical leadership, cross-team collaboration
Preferred skills
Mentoring junior engineers, defining engineering conventions, driving scalability initiatives
Technologies
AWS, EKS, Docker, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Bash, Python, Go
Responsibilities
Design and implement chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify system weaknesses; Build and maintain disaster recovery automation and runbooks; Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures; Develop and improve tools and automation for managing infrastructure and application configuration as code; Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across teams; Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance infrastructure quality, reliability, and stability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities