Staff Database Engineer

Job Title : Staff Database Engineer

Job Summary :

This job designs implements and maintains advanced large-scale database and data platforms that drive performance reliability and cost-efficiency. This role combines deep technical expertise in automation observability and Infrastructure-as-Code with a focus on operational excellence and innovation. The engineer leverages cloud-native technologies Big Data systems and AI-powered automation to optimize mission-critical OLTP and analytics platforms across multi-cloud environments. This position is ideal for technologists who thrive on solving complex system-level challenges and advancing PayPals data infrastructure.

Job Description :

Essential Responsibilities :

• Architect configure and manage scalable highly available database clusters (Oracle Google Spanner MySQL CloudSQL BigTable).
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform Ansible Puppet and Kubernetes.
• Develop CI / CD pipelines for schema and infrastructure automation with Jenkins GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
• Design and enforce secure data handling encryption and access control practices.
• Optimize database and Big Data systems for performance scalability and cost efficiency.
• Build monitoring and observability systems with Prometheus Grafana ELK and Datadog.
• Drive SLIs / SLOs / SLAs for database reliability and uptime.
• Automate database and platform management with Python-based tooling.
• Lead on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with DevOps data engineering and analytics teams to deliver resilient data solutions.

Expected Qualifications :

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1