Staff Software Eng. I Data Platform

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The Unified Feature Store (UFS) team at eBay part of the Golden DataSet Platform (GDS) initiative is building the next generation of eBays AI and decisioning platform. We are developing a declarative self-service platform that enables engineers to define discover compute validate and serve features consistently across both training and real-time inference. Our mission is to eliminate feature duplication ensure training-serving parity and provide reliable scalable and low-latency feature infrastructure that powers fraud detection payments search personalization and other mission-critical experiences across eBay.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the architecture and technical direction of eBays Unified Feature this role you will design and build the distributed systems that power feature computation storage serving and lifecycle management at massive scale. Your work will directly improve developer productivity accelerate AI model delivery and establish UFS as the single source of truth for feature engineering across eBay.

While familiarity with feature stores stream processing and data infrastructure is valuable your primary focus will be on building the distributed platform itself solving challenging problems in scalability consistency reliability and low-latency serving.

If youre passionate about large-scale distributed systems backend infrastructure platform architecture and solving hard scalability problems this is the right team for you.

• Design and build large-scale distributed services that power eBays AI and decisioning infrastructure.

• Develop platform services for stream processing state management feature serving and distributed computation.

• Solve challenging distributed systems problems involving scalability fault tolerance exactly-once processing and high-throughput data processing.

• Build reusable frameworks platform libraries and self-service tooling to improve developer productivity.

• Contribute to architectural decisions around reliability performance consistency partitioning and operational excellence.

• Improve observability monitoring incident response and production reliability for critical platform services.

• Optimize performance capacity and cost efficiency across distributed systems.

• Develop automation that simplifies deployment debugging and operational workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering product and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.

• Mentor junior engineers participate in design reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Identify and address technical debt performance bottlenecks and reliability improvements.

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field with 8 years of industry experience building distributed systems or platform infrastructure.

• Experience designing and operating high-throughput low-latency production-grade distributed services.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including partitioning replication consistency concurrency idempotency and failure recovery.

• Strong software engineering skills in Java Python Go or similar languages.

• Experience building platform services APIs frameworks or runtime infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka Flink Spark RDBMS/NoSQL.

• Experience operating production systems including observability performance tuning debugging incident response and on-call ownership.

• Ability to balance correctness reliability performance and developer productivity when designing systems.

• Experience contributing to system design backward-compatible migrations and safe production rollouts.

• Strong communication collaboration and mentoring skills with the ability to influence technical decisions within the team.

Additional Details

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base 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 RRSP eligibility 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.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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