Manager, Database Engineering

PayPal • San Jose, CA

6d • $226,138 - $300,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers. We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities. Job Summary: Job Description: PayPal, Inc. seeks Manager, Database Engineering in San Jose, CA Job Duties:

Requirements

• Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field plus eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Operating on-prem/cloud databases and/or distributed systems (5 years)
• Large scale distributed datastores- designing, architecting/re-architecting (5 years)
• RDBMS migrations/upgrades from on-prem to cloud and within cloud (5 years)
• Managing AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, or Elastic/OpenSearch 5 years)
• Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) (5 years)
• Writing python scripts automating database operations (5 years)
• Managing document datastores and migrating from on-prem MongoDB to cloud solutions (3 years)
• Writing Github actions workflows automating database operations (3 years)
• Managing PostgreSQL either on-prem or in cloud (2 years)

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a team of talented database engineers while working closely with product/program management, developers, architects and SRE to drive forward the vision, architecture, design, implementation, optimization and tuning of Venmo Data Platforms.
• Implement processes to drive strong operational hygiene for all components and systems within Venmo Data Platforms.
• Manage scrum process, roadmap and drive planning for the Venmo Data Platforms team.
• Lead complex initiatives that span across multiple teams/cross-organizations and have companywide impact.
• Provide regular updates on the key initiatives to the leadership.
• Conduct performance and career conversations and regular 1:1s with direct reports.
• Provide technical and tactical input on key initiatives and projects.
• Prepare and work with the team/partner-teams for detailed Root Cause Analysis of any Venmo Data Platforms’ production incidents and share/present the same with the leadership team with plans for improvements in the process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager