Senior Cloud Database Engineer

The Company

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:

Senior Cloud Database Engineer Job Summary

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.

Database Platform Engineering

-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



Operational Excellence

-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



What you need to bring

-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

-Experience with generative AI tools for database optimization preferred

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize Big Data and cloud technologies to ensure reliable and efficient operations.
• Design, implement, and oversee scalable compute infrastructure tailored to support data scientists' needs.
• Create insightful reports leveraging tools such as Tableau, MicroStrategy, ThoughtSpot, Qlik, Looker, and others.
• Optimize system performance through tuning and proactive efficiency improvements.
• Collaborate with business users to address queries, resolve issues,