Senior 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 Description Summary:

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Database Engineer

Meet our Team:

PayPal’s Database Operations Team Primary goal is being laser focused in achieving 5 9s availability. Team members operate as Level 2 Support during on-call in rotational basis for PayPal Site database support and address all the escalations from the L1 Support and participate in triaging incidents and identify root causes. Team is responsible for Disaster Recovery Drills, Backup & recovery, proactive SQL tuning and suggest areas of improvement, implementing security policies and working on various NoSQL implementations and contribute to automation of processes.

Your Way to Impact:

Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects when not On-call. Working with vendors to manage support SLA’s. Experience in understanding and awareness in an Incident/Problem management process and procedures in driving integration, improvements, documentations, and support strategies in operational environment. Additional points of impact:

• Be an availability champion to PayPal's mission critical production databases.
• Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects.
• Explores the automation opportunities for repeatable tasks and recommend/implement the solutions in collaboration with the appropriate teams.
• Proactively finds the potential database issues and takes Initiative to address them in a timely fashion.

Your Day to Day:

• Provide Database support and engineering for 24/7 environment.
• Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects.
• Triage incidents and identify root causes. Proactively finds the potential database issues and takes Initiative to address them in a timely fashion.
• Drive Incident management, identify corrective/preventive actions and complete such actions.
• SQL review/tuning and suggest areas of improvements
• Able to gel with a large team of DBAs, Command Center, Sys Admins, Architecture, and ETL team and willing to share knowledge.
• Follow change management and security guidelines and execute critical change requests.
• Deliver various DB changes to PayPal's mission critical production databases.
• Proficient with scripting and automation preferably using Python, Shell scripts and Ansible
• Explores the automation opportunities for repeatable tasks and recommend/implement the solutions in collaboration with the appropriate teams.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will bring 5+ years of experience within database engineering/administration
• Candidates must be open to an on-call schedule every 6 weeks
• Microsoft and Oracle experience is required (strong real-world DBA experience on managing Oracle Exadata databases & Microsoft SQL Server at scale)
• SQL Server DBA experience is required
• Strong experience in performance monitoring, triaging incidents, identify root cause and propose corrective actions.
• Strong ability to write code in Python, PL/SQL and automate task using Ansible & Terraform.
• Partnering with peers in product development to enable business and deliver projects.
• SQL tuning and suggest areas of improvements.
• Public cloud experience is preferred (GCP, Azure & AWS)
• Experience or exposure to NoSQL, MySQL is a nice to have
• Follow change management and security guidelines and execute critical change requests.
• Willingness to document and enhance process-oriented approach.

Subsidiary:

Travel Percent:

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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