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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Database Engineer - **Company:** PayPal - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $176,500.0 - $262,350.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Computer Programming, Databases, Relational Databases, Database Design, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Data Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Operational Databases, Redis, Aws Command Line Interface (CLI), Ansible, Amazon ElastiCache, Cloudformation, AWS Aurora, Cassandra, Data Management, Puppet, Terraform - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/58896116-staff-database-engineer ## About the Role * 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) Expertise with programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash) Expertise with database design for relational and non-relational data stores. Expertise with database operations: AWS DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, Elasticsearch Experience mentoring and developing leads and engineers Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience ## Description The Venmo Data Platforms team is responsible for engineering and operating Venmo's internal and customer-facing production data stores, including Aurora MySQL, Amazon DocumentDB, Cassandra, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB. As a Staff Database Engineer on the Data Platforms team, you will partner closely with engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives that align service operations with business goals. You will be a hands-on technical leader who leads by example, mentoring engineers and product owners to improve service availability, reliability, and scalability through best practices. In this role, you will design, implement, automate, and operate next-generation, cloud-native database systems. You will drive operational excellence through automation and AI-driven optimization, while collaborating closely with infrastructure, and product teams to support Venmo's data-driven innovation, platform resilience, and continued growth., * Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system * Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow * Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives * Proactively improves existing structures & processes * Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems * Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions * Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor * Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations, The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. 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