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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 the team and the role\nThe ObservabilityPlatform team builds and operates the infrastructure that helps eBay teams monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of large-scale distributed systems. The platform supports the telemetryand reliability needs of thousands of microservices across eBay and operates at hyperscale, processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data using modern open-source technologies such as Prometheus, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and related tools.\nThe Role:\nAs a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build high-performance distributed systemsin Golang that power eBay’s observabilityplatform across metrics, logs, traces, and related workflows. You will work across the full telemetrylifecycle-from ingestion and processing to storage, query, and platform services-building reliable backend systems that operate at massive scale.\nYou will partner closely with SREs, platform engineers, and service owners to solve complex reliability challenges, improve operational excellence, and help shape the future of observabilityat eBay. This role offers the opportunity to work on business-critical infrastructure, contribute to open-source technologies, and grow through direct exposure to some of eBay’s most complex engineering problems. This role also includes participation in the team’s on-call rotation in support of production reliability.\nWhat you will accomplish\nDesign, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services in Golang for eBay’s observabilityplatform\nDevelop high-throughput systems for ingesting, redefining, storing, and querying telemetrydata across logs, metrics, and traces\nImprove the performance, reliability, and maintainability of distributed systemsthat support hyperscale observabilityworkloads\nStrengthen Kubernetes-based production systems through resilient service design, self-healing patterns, autoscaling, and operational excellence\nPartner with SREs, platform teams, and service owners to translate observabilityneeds into robust platform capabilities and developer-friendly tools\nContribute to architecture reviews, production readiness efforts, and post-incident improvements that raise the reliability bar across the platform\nHelp evolve engineering standards, code quality, and best practices for Go-based services running in cloud-native environments\nExpand your technical breadth by working across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, open-source observabilitytooling, and platform engineering\nWhat you will bring\n7+ years of experience in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systemsengineering\nStrong hands-on programming expertise in Golang, with a proven track record of building reliable, scalable backend or infrastructure services\nDeep understanding of distributed systemsconcepts including scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, and system reliability\nExperience designing, building, and operating production services in Kubernetes or similar cloud-native environments\nStrong knowledge of observabilityconcepts including metrics, logs, traces, telemetrypipelines, and production monitoring\nExperience with technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar observabilityand data infrastructure tools\nFamiliarity with high-throughput data pipelines, time-series systems, and large-scale microservices environments\nAbility to collaborate effectively across software engineering, SRE, and platform teams to solve complex production challenges\nExperience contributing to open-source infrastructure or building internal developer platforms is a plus\nFamiliarity with JavaScript/React or user-facing observabilityexperiences is a plus, but the primary focus of this role is backend engineering inGolang\nAdditional Details\nThe base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:\n$172,000 - $229,600Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.\nIf hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.\nRemote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.\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. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.\nWe use cookies to enhance your experience and may use AI tools for administrative tasks in the hiring process. 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