Position Summary:
Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds!
But we’re only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we haven’t thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that’s going to take a lot of figuring out. Let’s figure it out together!
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product owners to establish SLOs for the database platforms.
- Help the Data Platform and SRE teams define technology and business strategies that deliver iterative enhancements to the tools and processes that improve availability, observability and scalability.
- Coach/mentor technical leads/engineers on design principles and database engineers best practices.
- Lead by doing and meaningfully contributing to engineering teams’ production operations improvements.
- Partner with infrastructure and SRE leadership to understand overarching business objectives and help SRE team leads translate those into actionable plans.
- Develop tools and automation to manage infrastructure and application configuration via code.
- Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives.
- Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices.
Required Education & Experience:
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Hands-on experience with database operations: AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, ElasticSearch
- Deep hands-on experience with designing and implementing infrastructure to support global-scale services
- AWS Solutions Architect preferred
- Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider):
- Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash)
- 10+ years’ experience operating distributed applications 24x7x365
- Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science or related field of study
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- 10+ years’ experience in software development or a related field