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Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.\nOur customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work - every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.\nJoin a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers - and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.\nAbout eBay\neBay is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We empower people and create economic opportunities for individuals, businesses, and communities. We're driven by a vision to create a more sustainable form of commerce that benefits the environment and society as a whole. Join us as we continue to innovate and shape the future of e-commerce.\nJob Description:\nCloud Data Technologies (CDT) team at eBay is responsible for all the data platform, infrastructure and management of end-to-end data lifecycle for all eBay data from eBay products to analytics use cases. We are seeking a Software Engineer passionate about data-driven technologies and architectures.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for MTS 2 Software Engineers to join the Golden Data Sets (GDS) Platformteam within eBay's Core Data Platform organization.\nThe problem we're solving is significant: eBay currently manages over ten thousands of loosely defined datasets with fragmented pipeline implementations, resulting in widespread data duplication, redundant compute, and runaway operational costs. The GDS Platform addresses this by building a fully declarative data platform - one that accepts dataset specifications, maintains a comprehensive view of the total data flow graph, and automatically produces optimized pipelines to systematically eliminate these inefficiencies at scale.\nAs an engineer on this team, you will contribute to the systems that power this platform - from computation graph management to pipeline optimization and dataset lifecycle. Your work will directly reduce operational waste across eBay's data infrastructure.\nNote: This is a Data Platform Engineeringrole. Familiarity with Spark, Flink, and the Hadoop ecosystem is useful context, but your primary responsibility is building the platform itself - not authoring pipelines.\nWhat you’ll do and learn\nOwn and deliver major componentsof eBay’s Data Platforms- from design through production rollout.\n\nDesign and evolve distributed systemspowering ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, and governance.\n\nContribute to long-term architecturethrough design reviewsand authoring architecture design documents, ensuring scalability and resilience.\n\nBuild systems that balance latency, correctness, and cost while ensuring securityand compliance.\n\nDrive operational excellencefor services you own, including observability and incident response.\n\nCollaborate across product, infra, and analyticsteams to align execution with business needs.\n\nLearn and grow in areas like governance, orchestration, and privacy engineering.\n\nWhat you bring\nExperience designing large-scaledistributed systems(compute, storage, APIs, streaming).\n\nAbility to independently delivercomplex projects from requirements to production.\n\nSystems thinkerwho anticipates bottlenecks, schema evolution, and reliabilityissues.\n\nStrong communication skillsto influence cross-team technical outcomes.\n\nGrowth mindsetwith curiosity to learn new technologies.\n\nWhat we bring\nImpact at scale: powering global analyticsand MLsystems.\n\nChallenging problems: streaming, freshness/correctness, and multi-cloud resiliency.\n\nCollaborative culturethat values inclusion and knowledge sharing.\n\nSupport & growth: flexibility, benefits, and career development resources.\n\nFocus on reliabilityand sustainable on-callpractices.\n\nQualifications\n10+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in distributed systems or data platforms.\n\nProven ability to designand delivercritical systems with impact.\n\nProficiency in Java/Python, CI/CD, and containerized environments.\n\nHands-on expertise in tools like Kafka/Flink, Spark, Delta/Iceberg, Kubernetes, NoSQL/columnar stores.\n\nExperience in streamingand batchdata platforms.\n\nStrong foundation in algorithmsand distributed design.\n\nBS/MS in CSor equivalent experience.\n\nAdditional Details\neBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at . We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.\nWe use cookies to enhance your experience and may use AI tools for administrative tasks in the hiring process. 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