Database Engineer

Job Summary

The Venmo Data Platforms team is responsible for engineering and operating Venmo's internal and customer‑facing production data stores, including Aurora MySQL, Amazon Document DB, Cassandra, Elasti Cache, Open Search, 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.

• 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 Pay Pal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations.

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS Cloud Formation, 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 Document DB, 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.

Primary Location – San Jose, California: $ - $ annually.

Additional Location – Austin, Texas: $ - $ annually.

Additionally, compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation as applicable.

Travel Percent: 0.

Subsidiary:
Venmo.

Pay Pal is committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer comprehensive, choice‑based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for employees and their families, and resources to create financial security and support mental health.

Pay Pal 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, Pay Pal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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