# Principal Engineer - Venmo Data Platform Infrastructure and Performance Engineering

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,000.00 - $323,950.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role is the technical authority for Venmo's data platform infrastructure and performance engineering. The Principal Engineer sets the technology vision, defines architectural direction, and provides deep technical leadership for the teams responsible for mission-critical databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, caching infrastructure, and performance engineering powering Venmo's real-time payment processing at massive scale.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Increases results and effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain

- Sets the technology roadmap for a domain

- Adapts role to meet needs, selecting the most effective means of realizing technical goals

- Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies

- Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results

- Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions

- Uses discovery and exploratory research to make successful decisions

- Identifies themes and trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement

- Mentors others to propagate technical influence and enhance performance

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

- 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering or data platform roles, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience

- 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments (AWS preferred)

- Deep, hands-on technical expertise across data and messaging systems , relational and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, and message queue architectures

- Strong DevOps engineering background including infrastructure as code, CI/CD for data systems, and automation-first operational practices

- Demonstrated experience with AI-first development practices and the ability to apply AI tooling to accelerate engineering productivity

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing , physical, emotional, and financial

- Generous paid time off

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

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## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- data platform
- cloud computing
- DevOps
- AI-first development

### Nice to have
- financial technology
- payments processing
- regulated industries
- resilience engineering
- failure injection testing
- business continuity planning

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