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Job Description:
Cloud Data Technologies (CDT) team at eBay is responsible for all the data infrastructure and management of end-to-end data lifecycle for all eBay data from onsite to analytics use cases. We are seeking a Software Engineer passionate about data-driven technologies and architectures.
About the Role
We’re seeking a
Member of Technical Staff 1 (Software Engineer)
who can
work independently
and is an
expert in distributed systems
. You’ll design and deliver well-scoped services and features that advance eBay’s Core Data Platform—improving scalability, reliability, and developer experience. This role is
Data Platform Engineering
(
not
data engineering
): you’ll build and evolve the platform itself rather than author application pipelines.
What you’ll do and learn
Independently design, implement, and ship
distributed services and features end-to-end (design → code → tests → deploy → operate).
Build core platform capabilities across
ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, and governance
.
Write production-grade code with strong
observability
(metrics, logs, traces) and
SLOs
, and participate in on-call for the services you own.
Diagnose and resolve
performance, scalability, and correctness issues in distributed environments.
Contribute design docs for your areas; participate in reviews to uphold
reliability, security, and cost
best practices.
Collaborate with product, infra, and analytics teams to align technical work with business outcomes.
What you bring
Must-haves
6+ years
of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent impact).
Expertise in distributed systems
fundamentals (consensus, replication, partitioning, consistency models, fault tolerance) and practical experience building and running such systems in production.
Strong coding skills in
Java/Python
and familiarity with
CI/CD
.
Hands-on with some of:
Kafka/Flink
,
Spark
,
Delta/Iceberg
,
Kubernetes
,
NoSQL/columnar stores
.
Proven ability to
work independently
, make sound tradeoffs, and deliver quality outcomes with minimal supervision.
Solid debugging, performance analysis, and system design skills.
Nice-to-haves
Experience building
multi-tenant
platform services, data governance, or privacy-by-design controls.
Contributions to open-source distributed systems or data platforms.
What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)
Consistently
ships independent, well-scoped features/services
to production with strong reliability.
Demonstrably improves
throughput/latency/cost
or
availability/SLOs
on owned services.
Becomes a
go-to engineer
for distributed-systems debugging and design conversations within the team.
Maintains high code quality, test coverage, and quality-in-release metrics.
Why Join CDT @ eBay
Impact at scale:
Your platform work powers analytics and ML across a global marketplace.
Hard problems:
Streaming freshness/correctness, storage/compute efficiency, multi-region resiliency.
Collaborative culture:
Inclusive team that values autonomy, craftsmanship, and knowledge sharing.
Growth:
Strong mentorship, career development resources, and sustainable on-call practices.
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