Staff Database Engineer
$176.5k - $262.35kPayPal
Job Summary The Venmo Data Platforms team is responsible for engineering and operating Venmo's internal and customer-facing production data stores, including Aurora MySQL, Amazon DocumentDB, Cassandra, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB. As a Staff Database Engineer on the Data Platforms team, you will partner closely with engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives that align service operations with business goals. You will be a hands‑on technical leader who leads by example, mentoring engineers and product owners to improve service availability, reliability, and scalability through best practices. In this role, you will design, implement, automate, and operate next‑generation, cloud‑native database systems. You will drive operational excellence through automation and AI‑driven optimization, collaborating closely with infrastructure and product teams to support Venmo's data‑driven innovation, platform resilience, and continued growth. Essential Responsibilities Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow Actions result in achieving customer, operational, program or service objectives Proactively improves existing structures & processes Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations Minimum Qualifications 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) Programming and scripting (Lambda, APIGW, Python, Java, Bash) Database design for relational and non-relational data stores Database operations: AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, Elasticsearch Experience mentoring and developing leads and engineers Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience AWS Solutions Architect preferred Location and Compensation Travel: 0% Primary Location – SanJose, California: ($176,500.00 – $262,350.00 annually) Additional Location – Austin, Texas: ($160,500.00 – $238,700.00 annually) Equal Employment Opportunity PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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