Staff Database Engineer
About The Position
The Venmo Data Platforms team is responsible for engineering and operating Venmo's internal and customer-facing production data stores, including Aurora MySQL, Amazon DocumentDB, Cassandra, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB. As a Staff Database Engineer on the Data Platforms team, you will partner closely with engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives that align service operations with business goals. You will be a hands-on technical leader who leads by example, mentoring engineers and product owners to improve service availability, reliability, and scalability through best practices. In this role, you will design, implement, automate, and operate next-generation, cloud-native database systems. You will drive operational excellence through automation and AI-driven optimization, while collaborating closely with infrastructure, and product teams to support Venmo's data-driven innovation, platform resilience, and continued growth.
Requirements
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Nice To Haves
- Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Expertise with programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash)
- Expertise with database design for relational and non-relational data stores.
- Expertise with database operations: AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Experience mentoring and developing leads and engineers
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
- AWS Solutions Architect preferred
Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
Benefits
- generous paid time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your family
- resources to create financial security
- support your mental health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
