Senior Engineer - Data Infrastructure

PayPal operates a global payments network that helps consumers and businesses securely move money, sell, and shop. The Senior Engineer - Data Infrastructure will design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, reliable data infrastructure and streaming platforms for Venmo, while automating infrastructure management, building data pipelines, and supporting stakeholders with complex data and performance issues.

Responsibilities

Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff

Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures

Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions

Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions

May contribute to code & design reviews

Design, implement and operate data infrastructure’s initiatives to provide secure, scalable, reliable and performant platform to Venmo product, analytics and the other infrastructure teams

Automate provisioning, management and monitoring solutions for the supported data infrastructure

Build and implement scalable and reliable data pipeline architecture to optimize overall performance

Build tools that help users leverage our data into actionable insights to improve our customers’ experiences, operational efficiency, and business performance

Build and implement message streaming solutions for Venmo applications with AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc

Collaborate with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure need

Collaborate with teammates on planning and execution of initiatives

Process, extract and manage relational databases and systems such as query authoring (SQL) and NoSQL databases

Create large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements

Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices

Preferred

AWS Solutions Architect is a plus

AWS Solutions Architect

Benefits

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Generous paid time off

Healthcare coverage for you and your family

Resources to create financial security

Support your mental health

Company

Online payments and money transfer services

San Jose, California, USA

https://www.paypal.com/home

Founded in 1998

10001+ employees

Qualifications

1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

Bachelors and/or master's in computer science or related field of study

3+ years' experience in software development or a related field

3+ years' experience operating global scale high throughput AWS native data pipelines

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), including: + Infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) + Programming and scripting (Python, Java, Lambda)

Hands-on experience with related big data infrastructure — AWS S3, AWS DMS, AWS EKS, Apache Spark, AWS Glue — and how they integrate with a streaming backbone

Experience with operating/maintaining message streaming solutions like AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc

Ability to troubleshoot problems

Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience

3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR any equivalent combination of education and experience

Visa Sponsorship through PayPal is not available for this position now or any time in the future

AWS Solutions Architect is a plus

1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required skills

AWS, Data Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Python, Java, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS DMS, AWS EKS, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, AWS SQS, Apache Kafka, SQL, NoSQL Databases

Preferred skills

AWS Solutions Architect is a plus

Experience

3+ years