MTS 1 Software Engineer, Data Platforms

Job Summary

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.

We are 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and deploy software components for a highly available and large distributed system.
• Perform development and operational tasks to maintain uptime & reliability SLAs of the platform.
• Consistently deliver high-quality and on-time product releases and deploy to production.
• Collaborate with product management, customers, peer teams and engineers.
• Participate in and/or lead engineering discussions, technical evaluations, design reviews and other project discussions.
• Follow internal Quality and Reliability engineering processes to meet or exceed established standards.

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 and 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.

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