Database Administrator

PayPal; Murfreesboro (TN); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Murfreesboro

Generous PTO

Job summary

PayPal, Inc. in Murfreesboro is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator to own end-to-end data reliability in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

You’ll collaborate across teams, surface risks with proposed fixes, mentor teammates, and drive strategic initiatives while keeping complex projects on track. Expect meaningful growth and a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• 7+ years that left you with strong instincts and few illustrations.
• A joyfully-rigorous attitude and eagerness to learn new skills.
• 5+ years of Strategic Planning reps, not just Strategic Planning exposure.
• A quietly-ambitious bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait.
• Senior-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb.
• 6 or more years steering general projects end to end.

Responsibilities

• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Cross-Functional Collaboration to each audience
• Surface risks early, loudly, and with a proposed fix attached
• Keep Problem Solving handoffs warm so Murfreesboro partners never feel dropped
• Provide hands-on support to colleagues and PayPal clients as needed
• Juggle oddball-friendly priorities without dropping the ones that matter
• Read a Strategic Planning system you didn't build and improve it anyway
• Trim Accountability processes that have quietly outlived their purpose
• Coach newer senior teammates through their first messy general project

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Written Communication

Strategic Planning

Problem Solving

Judgment

Project leadership

Growth mindset

Job description

We're hiring a Database Administrator, and the short version is this: bring Cross-Functional Collaboration, bring Written Communication, and bring the kind of curiosity that PayPal runs on. For a delightfully-weird professional with 6+ years behind them, this contract Database Administrator job delivers $86,000 - $122,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Cross-Functional Collaboration to each audience
• Surface risks early, loudly, and with a proposed fix attached
• Keep Problem Solving handoffs warm so Murfreesboro partners never feel dropped
• Provide hands-on support to colleagues and PayPal clients as needed
• Juggle oddball-friendly priorities without dropping the ones that matter
• Read a Strategic Planning system you didn't build and improve it anyway
• Trim Accountability processes that have quietly outlived their purpose
• Coach newer senior teammates through their first messy general project

What You'll Bring

• A PayPal mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• 7+ years that left you with strong instincts and few illustrations
• A joyfully-rigorous attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• 5+ years of Strategic Planning reps, not just Strategic Planning exposure
• A quietly-ambitious bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• Senior-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb
• 6 or more years steering general projects end to end

PayPal earns its keep by making general predictable, a bias-to-action promise it has quietly kept across TN. We hand new Database Administrator hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.

Expect $86,000 - $122,000, a hybrid Murfreesboro office, generous PTO, and leaders who treat your development as a real priority.

Re-dated this morning, PayPal continues hiring for the Database Administrator role.

Come find out why people stay at PayPal once they get here; the Database Administrator door is open.