Data Engineer Paypal California

Deadline : 13 Feb, 2025

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

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.

Job Description:

Your way of Impact

The Venmo Data Infrastructure team supports Venmo’s internal and customer impacting data movements and message streaming infrastructure.

Venmo Data Infrastructure team is actively engaged in 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.

Your Day to day

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Build and implement message streaming solutions for Venmo applications with AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc
  • Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices.

What you need to bring

  • 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 on-prem/cloud databases/data-warehouses and/or distributed systems 24x7x365
  • Experience with operating/maintaining message streaming solutions like AWS SQS, Apache Kafka etc.
  • Ability to troubleshoot problems
  • 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):
  • Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Hands-on programming and scripting (Lambda, API GW, Python, Java, Bash)
  • Hands-on experience with big data operations including, but not limited-to- AWS S3, AWS DMS, AWS SQS, Luigi, AWS EKS, Apache Spark, AWS Glue.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
  • Understanding of TLS/mTLS protocols from the application’s perspective (server certificates, client authentication etc) is a plus
  • 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.

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