Senior Staff Database Engineer

What you need to know about the roleAt 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 TeamThe 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.

Your day-to-dayDesign/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 bringBachelors 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

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