Staff Database Engineer

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Job Description Summary:
PayPal's Data Platform Engineering team is looking for a highly talented and self-driven reliability engineer to support and scale database infrastructure to internet of things while maintaining high availability goals in 24/7 environment. Our Database Reliability Engineers use database expertise combined with software engineering skills to evangelizing reliability-as-a-feature through monitoring, service-level objectives, automation, everything-as-code, and testing. The desired candidate needs to have passion for solving complex database problems, design solutions to scale and strive for continuous improvements. Expert in Oracle database technologies and familiarity with MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSql databases like Aerospike, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase will be preferred.

Job Description:

About the role

PayPal's Data Platform Engineering team is looking for a highly talented and self-driven reliability engineer to support and scale database infrastructure to internet of things while maintaining high availability goals in 24/7 environment. Our Database Reliability Engineers use database expertise combined with software engineering skills to evangelizing reliability-as-a-feature through monitoring, service-level objectives, automation, everything-as-code, and testing. The desired candidate needs to have passion for solving complex database problems, design solutions to scale and strive for continuous improvements. Expert in Oracle database technologies and familiarity with MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSql databases like Aerospike, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase will be preferred.

Requirements

• Strong real-world experience on managing Oracle databases at scale.
• 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 (GCP, Azure & AWS)
• Follow change management and security guidelines and execute critical change requests.
• Willingness to document and enhance process-oriented approach.

Basic Qualifications

10+ years of experience in Oracle Database Administration building and managing highly scalable, highly available, and performant systems with ability to code in Python & PL/SQL.

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