Staff Database Engineer - Hybrid Cloud-Native Data Platform

PayPal Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Healthcare coverage

Financial security resources

Job summary

PayPal Inc. in San Jose, CA invites a Staff Database Engineer to join the Venmo Data Platforms team. You will design, implement, automate, and operate modern cloud-native database systems while driving reliability and scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product teams, and align data strategies with business goals. You will work in a balanced hybrid model with focus on service availability, platform resilience, and data-driven innovation across Venmo and PayPal

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience mentoring and developing leads and engineers.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• AWS Solutions Architect or similar cloud architecture background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as a project or system leader, coordinating activities of other engineers.
• Determine technical tasks that teammates will follow to achieve objectives.
• Ensure actions meet customer, operational, program or service goals.
• Proactively improve existing structures and processes.
• Balance competing priorities to identify optimal solutions.
• Identify patterns and translate repetition into scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with management to raise engineering standards.
• Represent PayPal, Inc to partners, customers, or industry groups.

Skills

Project leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cloud-native databases

AWS knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS DynamoDB

AWS DocumentDB

Cassandra

MySQL

AWS Aurora

Redis

Elasticsearch

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Lambda

API Gateway

Python

Java

Bash

Job description

PayPal Inc. in San Jose, CA invites a Staff Database Engineer to join the Venmo Data Platforms team. You will design, implement, automate, and operate modern cloud-native database systems while driving reliability and scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product teams, and align data strategies with business goals. You will work in a balanced hybrid model with focus on service availability, platform resilience, and data-driven innovation across Venmo and PayPal