diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListener.java b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListener.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..931b24976
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Nomulus Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package google.registry.persistence;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import javax.persistence.Embeddable;
+import javax.persistence.Embedded;
+import javax.persistence.MappedSuperclass;
+import javax.persistence.PostLoad;
+import javax.persistence.PostPersist;
+import javax.persistence.PostRemove;
+import javax.persistence.PostUpdate;
+import javax.persistence.PrePersist;
+import javax.persistence.PreRemove;
+import javax.persistence.PreUpdate;
+
+/**
+ * A listener class to invoke entity callbacks in cases where Hibernate doesn't invoke the callback
+ * as expected.
+ *
+ * <p>JPA defines a few annotations, e.g. {@link PostLoad}, that we can use for the application to
+ * react to certain events that occur inside the persistence mechanism. However, Hibernate only
+ * supports a few basic use cases, e.g. defining a {@link PostLoad} method directly in an {@link
+ * javax.persistence.Entity} class or in an {@link Embeddable} class. If the annotated method is
+ * defined in an {@link Embeddable} class that is a property of another {@link Embeddable} class, or
+ * it is defined in a parent class of the {@link Embeddable} class, Hibernate doesn't invoke it.
+ *
+ * <p>This listener is added in core/src/main/resources/META-INF/orm.xml as a default entity
+ * listener whose annotated methods will be invoked by Hibernate when corresponding events happen.
+ * For example, {@link EntityCallbacksListener#prePersist} will be invoked before the entity is
+ * persisted to the database, then it will recursively invoke any other {@link PrePersist} method
+ * that should be invoked but not handled by Hibernate due to the bug.
+ *
+ * @see <a
+ *     href="https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/current/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#events-jpa-callbacks">JPA
+ *     Callbacks</a>
+ * @see <a href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-13316">HHH-13316</a>
+ */
+public class EntityCallbacksListener {
+
+  @PrePersist
+  void prePersist(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PrePersist.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PreRemove
+  void preRemove(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PreRemove.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PostPersist
+  void postPersist(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PostPersist.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PostRemove
+  void postRemove(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PostRemove.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PreUpdate
+  void preUpdate(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PreUpdate.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PostUpdate
+  void postUpdate(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PostUpdate.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  @PostLoad
+  void postLoad(Object entity) {
+    EntityCallbackExecutor.create(PostLoad.class).execute(entity, entity.getClass());
+  }
+
+  private static class EntityCallbackExecutor {
+    Class<? extends Annotation> callbackType;
+
+    private EntityCallbackExecutor(Class<? extends Annotation> callbackType) {
+      this.callbackType = callbackType;
+    }
+
+    private static EntityCallbackExecutor create(Class<? extends Annotation> callbackType) {
+      return new EntityCallbackExecutor(callbackType);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Executes eligible callbacks in {@link Embedded} properties recursively.
+     *
+     * @param entity the Java object of the entity class
+     * @param entityType either the type of the entity or an ancestor type
+     */
+    private void execute(Object entity, Class<?> entityType) {
+      Class<?> parentType = entityType.getSuperclass();
+      if (parentType != null && parentType.isAnnotationPresent(MappedSuperclass.class)) {
+        execute(entity, parentType);
+      }
+
+      findEmbeddedProperties(entity, entityType)
+          .forEach(
+              normalEmbedded -> {
+                // For each normal embedded property, we don't execute its callback method because
+                // it is handled by Hibernate. However, for the embedded property defined in the
+                // entity's parent class, we need to treat it as a nested embedded property and
+                // invoke its callback function.
+                if (entity.getClass().equals(entityType)) {
+                  executeCallbackForNormalEmbeddedProperty(
+                      normalEmbedded, normalEmbedded.getClass());
+                } else {
+                  executeCallbackForNestedEmbeddedProperty(
+                      normalEmbedded, normalEmbedded.getClass());
+                }
+              });
+    }
+
+    private void executeCallbackForNestedEmbeddedProperty(
+        Object nestedEmbeddedObject, Class<?> nestedEmbeddedType) {
+      Class<?> parentType = nestedEmbeddedType.getSuperclass();
+      if (parentType != null && parentType.isAnnotationPresent(MappedSuperclass.class)) {
+        executeCallbackForNestedEmbeddedProperty(nestedEmbeddedObject, parentType);
+      }
+
+      findEmbeddedProperties(nestedEmbeddedObject, nestedEmbeddedType)
+          .forEach(
+              embeddedProperty ->
+                  executeCallbackForNestedEmbeddedProperty(
+                      embeddedProperty, embeddedProperty.getClass()));
+
+      for (Method method : nestedEmbeddedType.getDeclaredMethods()) {
+        if (method.isAnnotationPresent(callbackType)) {
+          invokeMethod(method, nestedEmbeddedObject);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    private void executeCallbackForNormalEmbeddedProperty(
+        Object normalEmbeddedObject, Class<?> normalEmbeddedType) {
+      Class<?> parentType = normalEmbeddedType.getSuperclass();
+      if (parentType != null && parentType.isAnnotationPresent(MappedSuperclass.class)) {
+        executeCallbackForNormalEmbeddedProperty(normalEmbeddedObject, parentType);
+      }
+
+      findEmbeddedProperties(normalEmbeddedObject, normalEmbeddedType)
+          .forEach(
+              embeddedProperty ->
+                  executeCallbackForNestedEmbeddedProperty(
+                      embeddedProperty, embeddedProperty.getClass()));
+    }
+
+    private Stream<Object> findEmbeddedProperties(Object object, Class<?> clazz) {
+      return Arrays.stream(clazz.getDeclaredFields())
+          .filter(
+              field ->
+                  field.isAnnotationPresent(Embedded.class)
+                      || field.getType().isAnnotationPresent(Embeddable.class))
+          .map(field -> getFieldObject(field, object))
+          .filter(Objects::nonNull);
+    }
+
+    private static Object getFieldObject(Field field, Object object) {
+      field.setAccessible(true);
+      try {
+        return field.get(object);
+      } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+    }
+
+    private static void invokeMethod(Method method, Object object) {
+      method.setAccessible(true);
+      try {
+        method.invoke(object);
+      } catch (IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/META-INF/orm.xml b/core/src/main/resources/META-INF/orm.xml
index 3bd380f39..9eb506ffa 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/META-INF/orm.xml
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/META-INF/orm.xml
@@ -10,4 +10,11 @@
       <basic name="amount" access="FIELD"/>
     </attributes>
   </embeddable>
+  <persistence-unit-metadata>
+    <persistence-unit-defaults>
+      <entity-listeners>
+        <entity-listener class="google.registry.persistence.EntityCallbacksListener" />
+      </entity-listeners>
+    </persistence-unit-defaults>
+  </persistence-unit-metadata>
 </entity-mappings>
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListenerTest.java b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListenerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f6989dea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/EntityCallbacksListenerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,302 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Nomulus Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package google.registry.persistence;
+
+import static com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet;
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertWithMessage;
+import static google.registry.persistence.transaction.TransactionManagerFactory.jpaTm;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
+import google.registry.persistence.transaction.JpaTestRules;
+import google.registry.persistence.transaction.JpaTestRules.JpaUnitTestRule;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import javax.persistence.Embeddable;
+import javax.persistence.Embedded;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.MappedSuperclass;
+import javax.persistence.PostLoad;
+import javax.persistence.PostPersist;
+import javax.persistence.PostRemove;
+import javax.persistence.PostUpdate;
+import javax.persistence.PrePersist;
+import javax.persistence.PreRemove;
+import javax.persistence.PreUpdate;
+import javax.persistence.Transient;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+/** Unit tests for {@link EntityCallbacksListener}. */
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class EntityCallbacksListenerTest {
+
+  @Rule
+  public final JpaUnitTestRule jpaRule =
+      new JpaTestRules.Builder().withEntityClass(TestEntity.class).buildUnitTestRule();
+
+  @Test
+  public void verifyAllCallbacks_executedExpectedTimes() {
+    TestEntity testPersist = new TestEntity();
+    jpaTm().transact(() -> jpaTm().saveNew(testPersist));
+    checkAll(testPersist, 1, 0, 0, 0);
+
+    TestEntity testUpdate = new TestEntity();
+    TestEntity updated =
+        jpaTm()
+            .transact(
+                () -> {
+                  TestEntity merged = jpaTm().getEntityManager().merge(testUpdate);
+                  merged.foo++;
+                  jpaTm().getEntityManager().flush();
+                  return merged;
+                });
+    // Note that when we get the merged entity, its @PostLoad callbacks are also invoked
+    checkAll(updated, 0, 1, 0, 1);
+
+    TestEntity testLoad =
+        jpaTm().transact(() -> jpaTm().load(VKey.createSql(TestEntity.class, "id"))).get();
+    checkAll(testLoad, 0, 0, 0, 1);
+
+    TestEntity testRemove =
+        jpaTm()
+            .transact(
+                () -> {
+                  TestEntity removed = jpaTm().load(VKey.createSql(TestEntity.class, "id")).get();
+                  jpaTm().getEntityManager().remove(removed);
+                  return removed;
+                });
+    checkAll(testRemove, 0, 0, 1, 1);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void verifyAllManagedEntities_haveNoMethodWithEmbedded() {
+    ImmutableSet<Class> violations =
+        PersistenceXmlUtility.getManagedClasses().stream()
+            .filter(clazz -> clazz.isAnnotationPresent(Entity.class))
+            .filter(EntityCallbacksListenerTest::hasMethodAnnotatedWithEmbedded)
+            .collect(toImmutableSet());
+    assertWithMessage(
+            "Found entity classes having methods annotated with @Embedded. EntityCallbacksListener"
+                + " only supports annotating fields with @Embedded.")
+        .that(violations)
+        .isEmpty();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void verifyHasMethodAnnotatedWithEmbedded_work() {
+    assertThat(hasMethodAnnotatedWithEmbedded(ViolationEntity.class)).isTrue();
+  }
+
+  private static boolean hasMethodAnnotatedWithEmbedded(Class<?> entityType) {
+    boolean result = false;
+    Class<?> parentType = entityType.getSuperclass();
+    if (parentType != null && parentType.isAnnotationPresent(MappedSuperclass.class)) {
+      result = hasMethodAnnotatedWithEmbedded(parentType);
+    }
+    for (Method method : entityType.getDeclaredMethods()) {
+      if (method.isAnnotationPresent(Embedded.class)) {
+        result = true;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  private static void checkAll(
+      TestEntity testEntity,
+      int expectedPersist,
+      int expectedUpdate,
+      int expectedRemove,
+      int expectedLoad) {
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPostPersist)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedPersist);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPrePersist)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedPersist);
+
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPreUpdate)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedUpdate);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPostUpdate)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedUpdate);
+
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPreRemove)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedRemove);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPostRemove)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedRemove);
+
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedNested.entityEmbeddedNestedPostLoad)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.entityEmbedded.entityEmbeddedParentPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+
+    assertThat(testEntity.parentPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.parentEmbedded.parentEmbeddedPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.parentEmbedded.parentEmbeddedNested.parentEmbeddedNestedPostLoad)
+        .isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+    assertThat(testEntity.parentEmbedded.parentEmbeddedParentPostLoad).isEqualTo(expectedLoad);
+  }
+
+  @Entity(name = "TestEntity")
+  private static class TestEntity extends ParentEntity {
+    @Id String name = "id";
+    int foo = 0;
+
+    @Transient int entityPostLoad = 0;
+
+    @Embedded EntityEmbedded entityEmbedded = new EntityEmbedded();
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void entityPostLoad() {
+      entityPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Embeddable
+  private static class EntityEmbedded extends EntityEmbeddedParent {
+    @Embedded EntityEmbeddedNested entityEmbeddedNested = new EntityEmbeddedNested();
+
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String entityEmbedded = "placeholder";
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void entityEmbeddedPrePersist() {
+      entityEmbeddedPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @MappedSuperclass
+  private static class EntityEmbeddedParent {
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedParentPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String entityEmbeddedParent = "placeholder";
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void entityEmbeddedParentPostLoad() {
+      entityEmbeddedParentPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Embeddable
+  private static class EntityEmbeddedNested {
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPrePersist = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPreRemove = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPostPersist = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPostRemove = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPreUpdate = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPostUpdate = 0;
+    @Transient int entityEmbeddedNestedPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String entityEmbeddedNested = "placeholder";
+
+    @PrePersist
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPrePersist() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPrePersist++;
+    }
+
+    @PreRemove
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPreRemove() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPreRemove++;
+    }
+
+    @PostPersist
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPostPersist() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPostPersist++;
+    }
+
+    @PostRemove
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPostRemove() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPostRemove++;
+    }
+
+    @PreUpdate
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPreUpdate() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPreUpdate++;
+    }
+
+    @PostUpdate
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPostUpdate() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPostUpdate++;
+    }
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void entityEmbeddedNestedPostLoad() {
+      entityEmbeddedNestedPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @MappedSuperclass
+  private static class ParentEntity {
+    @Embedded ParentEmbedded parentEmbedded = new ParentEmbedded();
+    @Transient int parentPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String parentEntity = "placeholder";
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void parentPostLoad() {
+      parentPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Embeddable
+  private static class ParentEmbedded extends ParentEmbeddedParent {
+    @Transient int parentEmbeddedPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String parentEmbedded = "placeholder";
+
+    @Embedded ParentEmbeddedNested parentEmbeddedNested = new ParentEmbeddedNested();
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void parentEmbeddedPostLoad() {
+      parentEmbeddedPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Embeddable
+  private static class ParentEmbeddedNested {
+    @Transient int parentEmbeddedNestedPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String parentEmbeddedNested = "placeholder";
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void parentEmbeddedNestedPostLoad() {
+      parentEmbeddedNestedPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @MappedSuperclass
+  private static class ParentEmbeddedParent {
+    @Transient int parentEmbeddedParentPostLoad = 0;
+
+    String parentEmbeddedParent = "placeholder";
+
+    @PostLoad
+    void parentEmbeddedParentPostLoad() {
+      parentEmbeddedParentPostLoad++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Entity
+  private static class ViolationEntity {
+
+    @Embedded
+    EntityEmbedded getEntityEmbedded() {
+      return new EntityEmbedded();
+    }
+  }
+}