# Sr. Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Venmo's identity infrastructure is foundational , it underpins trust, safety, and compliance for every transaction on the platform. As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert responsible for setting the technical direction for Venmo's identity platform, including authentication, authorization, identity verification, and fraud risk systems.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries

- Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees

- Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company

- Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually

- Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results

- Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences

- Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees

- Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

**Day-to-Day Responsibilities:**

- Set the technical direction for Venmo's identity platform, including authentication, authorization, identity verification, and fraud risk systems

- Partner with PayPal's platform and security teams to align on shared identity standards, reusable infrastructure, and cross-org initiatives

- Lead architectural reviews and define engineering standards for how the Identity team builds, scales, and secures its systems

- Mentor and develop senior engineers

- Collaborate with Product, Legal, Compliance, and Security to translate regulatory and risk requirements into sound technical solutions

- Identify and proactively address risks , whether that's a fragile authentication flow, a compliance gap, or a scaling bottleneck , before they become incidents

- Own the performance and availability of the services, as well as participate in on-call rotations and provide support during incidents

**Requirements:**

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

- Deep expertise in identity and access management , including protocols like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO2/WebAuthn

- Proven track record of defining and shipping large-scale distributed systems

- Hands-on comfort with backend systems at scale (Python, Java, Go, or similar) and Cloud (AWS)

- Strong communication skills

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on identity, authentication, or security-critical systems at scale

- Experience working with or designing systems that meet regulatory requirements , KYC, AML, GDPR, or similar

- Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS

- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

## Skills

### Required
- identity and access management
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC
- SAML
- FIDO2/WebAuthn
- distributed systems
- backend systems
- Cloud
- AWS
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- KYC
- AML
- GDPR
- Terraform

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