At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.
Job Description Summary:
Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds! Meet our team Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our users’ needs and wants. We work with a product team that is data-driven and human-centered in its design principles. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.
Job Description:
Your way of impact:
The Venmo Data Platforms team supports Venmo’s internal and customer-facing production data store engineering and operations. Venmo Data Platforms team is actively engaged in database engineering partnering with development groups, platform and infrastructure teams, providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design as well as an advocate for analyzing and resolving customer and performance issues at scale.
Your day to day:
- Design, implement and operate data platform’s initiatives to provide secure, scalable, reliable and performant data platform to Venmo product and infrastructure teams.
- Automate provisioning, management and monitoring solutions for the supported data platforms.
- Ensure systems are running at highest possible performance level by analyzing and tuning queries.
- Implement solutions to measure and remediate bottlenecks in the data platforms.
- Collaborate with teammates on planning and execution of initiatives.
- Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices.
What Do You Need To Bring:
- 3+ years' experience in software development or a related field along with a bachelor's and/or master's in computer science or related field of study.
- 3+ years' Experience operating on-prem/cloud databases and/or distributed systems 24x7x365.
- Experience with query profiling, reviewing optimizer dump, data modeling and relational schema design.
- Ability to troubleshoot problems.
- Hands-on experience with designing and implementing infrastructure to support global-scale services.
- Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider):
- Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
- Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash).
- Hands-on experience with database operations including, but not limited-to- AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience.
- AWS Solutions Architect is a plus.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
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 PayPal Benefits .
The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $72700 to $176000.
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 PayPal Benefits .
Who We Are:
To learn more about our culture and community visit PayPal Culture .
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit PayPal .
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 .
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