Senior Database Engineer
Core
Ensures reliability, scalability, and performance of PayPal's global data platforms by leading infrastructure transformations and optimizing mission-critical OLTP and analytics environments.
Role type
Senior IC database engineer (cloud-native, multi-cloud)
Builds
Next-generation cloud-native database systems across multi-cloud platforms
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
BigTable, Oracle, MySQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Python, SQL, Linux, distributed systems troubleshooting, observability (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus)
Preferred skills
AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, relational and non-relational database architecture, AWS Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Bash, Java, Scala, GitOps, CI/CD, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Packer, BigTable, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, BigQuery, Kubernetes, AWS Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Redis, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch
Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and manage high-performance database clusters; Architect multi-cloud database solutions; Build Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks; Optimize databases through indexing, partitioning, and tuning; Automate schema deployment using GitOps and CI/CD; Lead incident response and implement self-healing strategies; Develop observability and alerting systems; Create Python-based automation and AI-driven optimization tools.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC