Cloud FinOps Data Engineer

The Company

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. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

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:

At PayPal (Nasdaq:PYPL), we put people at the center of everything we do. Founded in 1998, we continue to be at the forefront of the digital payments revolution. PayPal gives people better ways to manage and move their money, offering them choice and flexibility in how they are able to send money, pay or get paid. We operate an open, secure and technology agnostic payments platform that businesses use to securely transact with their customers online, in stores and increasingly on mobile devices.

PayPal's Cloud FinOps team is looking for a dynamic and energetic individual with a data engineering and database operations background to help enhance and operationalize the analytics solution that helps executives with understanding the cost, quality, and value of the cloud services used by infrastructure teams. The Cloud FinOps team is part of the overall Cloud Management Office (CMO) within the Technology Infrastructure org.

The CMO sets standards for all PayPal engineering teams when using public/private cloud services to ensure both the best cost effectiveness and adherence to PayPal infrastructure standards. The FinOps team’s overall objective is to help PayPal build a more scalable, optimized infrastructure to run SITE by identifying areas of improvement and supporting engineering teams understand their spend, ways to optimize those costs, and analytics as they try to implement those improvements.

The data engineer role would work as part of data management team to maintain an existing data mart, ETL pipelines, build integrations and write data aggregation jobs that are used by the FinOps data analysts for cost and optimization analysis.

Job Description:

In your day-to-day activities you will

• Work with the DB Lead to create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Build the ETL jobs required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Google ‘big data’ technologies
• Build APIs that expose the data so customers can consume and integrate with our data
• Evaluate large and complex queries / stored procedures and recommend changes to optimize performance
• Assist with the expansion into public cloud cost transparency
• Lead automation efforts leveraging inner source interaction models with other teams
• Assist data analysts on our team with query development, statistical analysis, and data visualization as needed
• Maintain technical documentation on stored procedures and ETL logic used to manage the database and data ingestion pipeline

Minimum Requirements

• BS in computer science, Information systems or equivalent field, MS preferred
• 4-5 years working experience as a Data Engineer
• Experience building and optimizing ETLs, data pipelines, architectures, and data aggregates
• Proficient in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 & 2019 Database Development (T-SQL), Data Analysis and Support.
• Thorough understanding of RDBMS concepts and ability to write complex SQL queries, Stored procedures, Functions & triggers
• Proficiency with Java and Python languages
• Basic experience with database administration (managing access, scheduled jobs, etc.)
• Basic experience with Google cloud compute services
• Basic experience with Google Big Query
• Understand REST API development and design
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Engineering
• CI/CD pipeline experience
• Experience with code repositories like Git/GitHub
• Demonstrated experience working with large data sets and a love for working with data
• Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation
• Basic familiarity with MS Office knowledge (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Strong communication skills and a constant desire to grow, learn, and explore new things

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS and Azure cloud services including compute and big data
• Experience with DataDog analytics platform
• Experience with Gimmel Notebooks
• Experience with some visualization tool (e.g. tableau or power BI)
• Experience managing database upgrades / data migrations
• Experience optimizing queries

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent: Business Administration/Management (Required)

English

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

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:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

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.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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