Sr. Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure and Devops

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. You will define the design, identify stakeholders, navigate risks and changes, coordinate colleagues’ work, implement solutions, and be accountable for timely and quality project delivery

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

What We’re Looking For

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

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