At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. Job Description Summary: What you need to know about the role At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo, we spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our users’ needs and wants. We work with a product team that is data-driven and human-centered in its design principles. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best. Meet our Team The Venmo Data Platforms team supports Venmo’s internal and customer-facing production data store engineering and operations. Venmo Data Platforms team is actively engaged in database engineering partnering with development groups, platform and infrastructure teams, providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design as well as an advocate for analyzing and resolving customer and performance issues at scale. Job Description: Your day-to-day Design/Architect/Implement data strategy and DR strategy for our data Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems and goals Influence the team to improve the technical results of the team/team members Lead complex initiatives that span across multiple teams/cross-organizations and have a companywide impact Design, implement, and operate data platform initiatives to provide a secure, scalable, reliable, and performant data platform to Venmo product and infrastructure teams Design/Architect solutions to measure and remediate bottlenecks in the data platforms Collaborate with stakeholders- leadership and the core data platforms teams on planning and execution of initiatives What do you need to bring Bachelors and/or master's in computer science or related field of study At least 15 years' experience in software development or a related field 10 years' experience operating on-prem/cloud databases and/or distributed systems 24x7x365 Experience leading complex projects involving multiple teams in the execution Expert at dealing with large-scale distributed data stores- designing, architecting/re-architecting Excellent ability to articulate non-functional-requirements (NFRs) of existing and new solutions Ability to solve complex problems with an optimal balance of cost-vs-rewards Ability to troubleshoot problems for large-scale data infrastructure Significant 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) Experience with Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, ElasticSearch Experience leading software projects AWS Solutions Architect is a plus We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply. Additional Job Description: Subsidiary: Venmo Travel Percent: 0 Our Benefits: At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you. We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com Who We Are: Click Here to learn more about our culture and community. PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com , https://about.pypl.com and https://investor.pypl.com. 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. 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