# Cloud/DevOps Engineer – Business Continuity

**Company**: Venmo
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This job delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). As a Senior Engineer on the Business Continuity team, you will build and operate the systems that ensure Venmo's infrastructure can withstand and recover from any failure scenario.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a hands-on contributor, while leading by example

- Mentor junior engineers

- Enjoy a high degree of independence in decision-making while being accountable for results of yourself and your team

- Be part of a team dedicated to driving the scalability and reliability of Venmo's AWS cloud infrastructure

- Contribute to initiatives: internal teams rarely have dedicated project managers

- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures

- Lead by example, making meaningful contributions to the improvement of engineering teams' production operations

- Develop and improve tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration as code

- Enhance the quality, reliability, and stability of our infrastructure and operations

- Design, implement, and operate chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify and remediate system weaknesses

- Build and maintain disaster recovery automation, runbooks, and infrastructure across Venmo's cloud environment

- Plan and execute chaos and incident game day exercises to validate system resilience and team preparedness

- Develop and maintain backup and restore tooling and processes for critical systems and data

- Define and track resilience metrics, SLOs, and recovery time objectives for owned systems

Requirements:

- Bachelor's in computer science or related field of study

- 5+ years' experience in software development or a related field

- 3+ years' experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365, as part of a Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE team

- Extensive hands-on experience with designing, implementing, and supporting infrastructure (AWS experience preferred) to support global-scale services

- Deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider)

- Hands-on programming and scripting (Python, Java, Bash, Go)

- Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience

- Experience with chaos engineering tools and frameworks (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, Litmus)

- Hands-on experience designing and implementing disaster recovery solutions for distributed systems

- Experience developing and maintaining backup and restore tooling and strategies

- Experience planning and executing game day exercises or incident simulations

- Understanding of RTO/RPO requirements and how to design systems to meet them

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Terraform
- GitHub Enterprise
- Datadog

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