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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.\nRole Overview\nWe are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for our Unified Data Platform, a foundational platform supporting large-scale data processing, analytics, search, and data-driven applications across the company.\nThe team owns critical platform capabilities including Hadoop, ETL and data processing platforms, Elasticsearch, Apache Airflow, and Data Lake Studio.\nIn this role, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building, operating, and evolving highly scalable and reliable data infrastructure. You will define technical and organizational priorities, drive platform strategy and execution, and partner with engineering teams across the company to provide efficient, reliable, and easy-to-use data platform capabilities.\nKey Responsibilities\nEngineering & People Leadership\nLead, mentor, and grow a team of software and platform engineers responsible for business-critical data infrastructure.\nDefine engineering priorities and translate platform strategy into clear, executable roadmaps.\nBuild a strong engineering culture focused on technical excellence, ownership, reliability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nRecruit, develop, and retain strong engineering talent through coaching, career development, and performance management.\nPartner with senior engineers and architects to drive technical direction and long-term platform evolution.\nPlatform Ownership & Strategy\nOwn the strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution for the Unified Data Platform, including:Hadoop Platform - large-scale distributed storage and data processing infrastructure.ETL Platform - scalable infrastructure and frameworks for production data pipelines.Apache Airflow - workflow orchestration, scheduling, and operational capabilities.Elasticsearch Platform - large-scale search, indexing, and data-serving infrastructure.Data Lake Studio - developer-facing tools and experiences for data development, discovery, processing, and analytics.\nDrive platform standardization and integration to provide a consistent experience across storage, compute, data processing, orchestration, and developer tooling.\nDevelop self-service platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity and improve engineering productivity.\nDrive architectural evolution to support increasing scale, workload diversity, reliability, and business requirements.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify the platform, reduce operational complexity, and improve infrastructure efficiency.\nReliability & Operational Excellence\nEnsure scalability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence across mission-critical platforms.\nEstablish and track platform SLAs/SLOs and engineering metrics around reliability, performance, capacity, adoption, and efficiency.\nDrive improvements in observability, automation, capacity management, incident response, and disaster recovery.\nLead technical reviews and post-incident analysis for significant platform issues and drive systemic improvements.\nPromote engineering practices that improve platform resilience and reduce operational overhead.\nCross-Functional Leadership\nPartner with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, security, and application teams to understand requirements and establish platform priorities.\nBalance investments in platform reliability, technical modernization, and new capabilities.\nDrive adoption of common platform capabilities and reduce fragmented or duplicated infrastructure.\nCommunicate platform strategy, priorities, technical trade-offs, risks, and progress to engineering leadership and stakeholders.\nQualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years software engineering experience, including engineering management or technical leadership experience.\n5+ years experience building and operating large-scale platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or data infrastructure.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, scalability, reliability, and production operations.\nExperience leading teams responsible for highly available, large-scale production platforms or infrastructure.\nExperience defining technical strategy and driving complex, multi-quarter engineering initiatives involving multiple systems and teams.\nStrong engineering judgment with the ability to evaluate architecture, technical trade-offs, operational risks, and long-term platform investments.\nDemonstrated ability to hire, develop, and lead high-performing engineering teams.\nStrong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering organizations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience leading teams responsible for large-scale data platforms, infrastructure platforms, distributed systems, or developer platforms.\nExperience with technologies in areas such as distributed storage and compute, data processing, workflow orchestration, search infrastructure, or data engineering platforms.\nExperience building internal platforms and self-service infrastructure used by large engineering organizations.\nExperience modernizing large-scale infrastructure while maintaining production reliability.\nExperience driving improvements in platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and infrastructure efficiency.\nAbility to operate effectively across deep technical discussions, people leadership, organizational planning, and long-term platform strategy.\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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