Senior Database Engineer

PayPal Database team is responsible for fulfilling all database infrastructure needs of PayPal site. This includes 24/7 site database support, engineering, new database builds, deploying schema changes to production databases while maintaining DB availability targets, implementing security policies, managing PP development databases, working on various NoSQL implementations and scripting to automate. We are looking for an exceptional Database engineer to join our DBI team to support our mission critical databases.

What you need to know about the role

PayPal Database team is responsible for fulfilling all database infrastructure needs of PayPal site. This includes 24/7 site database support, engineering, new database builds, deploying schema changes to production databases while maintaining DB availability targets, implementing security policies, managing PP development databases, working on various NoSQL implementations, and scripting to automate. We are looking for an exceptional Database engineer to join our DBI team to support our mission critical databases.

Meet our team

PayPal Database team is responsible for fulfilling all database infrastructure needs of PayPal site. This includes 24/7 site database support, engineering, new database builds, deploying schema changes to production databases while maintaining DB availability targets, implementing security policies, managing PP development databases, working on
various NoSQL implementations and scripting to automate.

Your way to impact

PayPal is frontrunner in fintech space where over years we have revolutionize payments ecosystem by democratizing payments and providing access to financial security for unbanked. PayPal is unique in a way where we are 2-sided network of enabling payments for both merchant and consumers with 400M active accounts and 25M merchants. This presents unique challenges on database infrastructure for scaling and infrastructure management. This position for candidates who want to solve complex scale challenges and lead the way for unlocking the data and drive business value.

In your day to day you will:

• Oracle database administration
• Writing scripts to automate routine tasks
• Engage in meetings with Application team stakeholders to drive or influence them for adhering to best practice
• Support tech stack on both on-prem DBs on bare metals and DBs on VM in public cloud.

What do you need to bring-

• Must be able to Multi-task and prioritize without much supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding how to scale in high velocity and high volume database platform environment
• Develop scripts and other forms of automation for routine tasks
• Strong Oracle database administration skills, including performance tuning and trouble shooting.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.