PayPal Senior Database Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

533724342

Job Description:

Job Title:Senior Database Engineer

Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects when not On-call. Working with vendors to manage support SLA’s. Experience in understanding and awareness in an Incident/Problem management process and procedures in driving integration, improvements, documentations, and support strategies in operational environment. Additional points of impact:

• Be an availability champion to PayPal's mission critical production databases.
• Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects.
• Explores the automation opportunities for repeatable tasks and recommend/implement the solutions in collaboration with the appropriate teams.
• Proactively finds the potential database issues and takes Initiative to address them in a timely fashion.

Your Day to Day:

• Provide Database support and engineering for 24/7 environment.
• Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects.
• Triage incidents and identify root causes. Proactively finds the potential database issues and takes Initiative to address them in a timely fashion.
• Drive Incident management, identifycorrective/preventiveactions and complete such actions.
• SQL review/tuning and suggest areas of improvements
• Able to gel with a large team of DBAs, Command Center, Sys Admins, Architecture, and ETL team and willing to share knowledge.
• Follow change management and security guidelines and execute critical change requests.
• Deliver various DB changes to PayPal's mission critical production databases.
• Proficient with scripting and automation preferably using Python, Shell scripts and Ansible
• Explores the automation opportunities for repeatable tasks and recommend/implement the solutions in collaboration with the appropriate teams.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate will bring 5+ years of experience within databaseengineering/administration
• Candidates must be open to an on-call schedule every 6 weeks
• Microsoft and Oracle experience is required (strong real-world DBA experience on managing Oracle Exadata databases & Microsoft SQL Server at scale)
• SQL Server DBA experience is required
• 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 is preferred (GCP, Azure & AWS)
• Experience or exposure to NoSQL, MySQL is a nice to have
• Follow change management and security guidelines and execute critical change requests.
• Willingness to document and enhance process-oriented approach.

Travel Percent:

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 .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$84500 to $204600

Our Benefits:

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