Senior Cloud Database Engineer

PayPal • San Jose, CA

167d • $111,500 - $191,950

About The Position

At PayPal, the Transaction Processing and Data Services (TPDS) team powers the backbone of our global payments platform, processing billions of transactions through our mission-critical OLTP database infrastructure. As a Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you will execute strategic infrastructure transformation initiatives to establish industry-leading availability standards and architect solutions for petabyte-scale operational excellence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of enterprise-grade database technologies and large-scale data platforms
• Proven experience designing mission-critical data infrastructure at petabyte scale
• Deep expertise in GCP cloud-native DBs like BigTable and Spanner, Cloud networking, and architecture
• Deep expertise in managing Oracle databases
• Advanced proficiency in automation and scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional collaboration and high-impact delivery

Nice To Haves

• Experience with generative AI tools for database optimization preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead database platform initiatives for exceptional availability and petabyte-scale performance
• Architect cloud-native data solutions across multi-cloud environments
• Design infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks for automated database operations
• Establish enterprise-grade security protocols and access controls
• Design comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions for mission-critical systems running on Cloud
• Execute advanced performance optimization for high-throughput environments
• Drive incident response leadership to maintain system reliability
• Provide technical consultation to product engineering teams on application resiliency design
• Architect and code database tooling and automation frameworks using AI-powered solutions

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees