Senior Multi-Cloud DB Engineer: AI-Driven Ops

PayPal; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking an experienced database and cloud infrastructure engineer in San Jose to elevate the reliability, scalability, and performance of our global data platforms. You will architect petabyte-scale systems, implement cloud-native databases across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and drive automation with IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps.

You’ll collaborate with data scientists, ML teams, and engineers to support analytics, operational resilience, and AI-driven optimization while ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Proficiency in BigTable, Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, BigQuery, and Kubernetes.
• Expertise with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and GitOps automation frameworks.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL; familiarity with Bash, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure environments.
• Linux system administration and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Deep understanding of observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, ELK).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage high-performance database clusters (BigTable, Oracle, MySQL, Cloud SQL).
• Architect multi-cloud database solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Packer.
• Optimize databases through indexing, partitioning, tuning, and query improvements.
• Automate schema deployment and management using GitOps and CI/CD workflows.
• Lead incident response and implement self-healing and failover strategies.
• Develop observability and alerting systems using Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus.

Skills

Python

SQL

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud

Observability

Automation

GitOps

Linux

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

GitOps

Job description

PayPal is seeking an experienced database and cloud infrastructure engineer in San Jose to elevate the reliability, scalability, and performance of our global data platforms. You will architect petabyte-scale systems, implement cloud-native databases across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and drive automation with IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps.

You’ll collaborate with data scientists, ML teams, and engineers to support analytics, operational resilience, and AI-driven optimization while ensuring security and