Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

What You’ll Do

• Working hands-on to build reliable, scalable, and observable distributed systems in the Data Platforms and Infrastructure space.

• Scaling our architecture to support heavy growth while keeping the Venmo service fast and reliable.

• Lead efforts to expand our infrastructure and systems across multiple sites.

• Implement monitoring and alerting tools that can keep track of both system-level and business-level performance.

• Expanding our configuration and container management infrastructure to enable rapid deployment of new services.

• Working with security engineering to perform security audits and proactively make recommendations/improvements to keep Venmo secure.

• Collaborate with engineering teams in feature delivery.

• Provide accurate status updates to team leads/scrum masters.

What We’re Looking For

You should have 5+ years of experience in database operations. You should also possess experience in working on all or most of the following types of data stores.

• Aurora (or MySql)

• MongoDb

• DataStax(or Cassandra)

• Elasticsearch

• Redis

• AWS components including cloud formation, Kubernetes, Puppet

• Monitoring tools like Data Dog, Sumo, New Relic,etc.

How to Really Get Our Attention

• Experience managing/monitoring large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience with data streaming systems, such as Kafka

• Fluent in one or more high-level programming language

• Comfortable working in a continuous deployment environment

• Have delivered scalable infrastructure using automation tools such as Puppet, Ansible or Vagrant

• Deep understanding of networking in public cloud environments

• Extensive experience designing and building systems with Docker containers and Kubernetes

• Built automated, scalable solutions with AWS using CloudFormation or Terraform

• Experienced with both relational and non-relational databases such as MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra

• Able to build and deploy EC2 instances for MongoDB and Cassandra

• Proficiency with monitoring and metrics collection tools such as ELK, Graphite, Sensu, or Prometheus

• Bonus points for Python/Django, node.js, and Nginx

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.PayPal 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, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.