This role pays more than
68%
of similar roles. Most pay
$168,214–$237,509
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$219k
versus about
$203k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About PayPal
PayPal is a leading global digital wallet and online payment system, founded in 1998, that allows individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage funds securely in over 200 markets.
PayPal currently has
49 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$160,500–$235,826
across 49 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Database Engineer on the Venmo Data Platforms team, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for engineering and operating internal and customer-facing production data stores. You will design, implement, automate, and operate next-generation, cloud-native database systems while mentoring engineers to improve service availability, reliability, and scalability. Your daily work involves driving operational excellence through automation and AI-driven optimization to support platform resilience. The role requires expertise in relational and non-relational data stores including Aurora MySQL, Amazon DocumentDB, Cassandra, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB. You will utilize tools such as AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Lambda, API Gateway, Python, Java, and Bash. This position addresses the technical challenge of managing complex data infrastructure to support Venmo's data-driven innovation and continued growth in a high-scale environment.